Writing is one of the areas in which persons with learning disabilities often have difficulty.
Enhancing Writing Skills, a federally-funded research project at San Diego State University, has been studying the use of word processing programs with students with learning disabilities, grades four through 12, for the past three years. Over that period, we have worked in dozens of classrooms and investigated the effectiveness of several different programs. I am pleased that it enticed you to contact me, compliment me, cajole me, and even challenge me. When Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in the last century, he intended that it might become a kind of hearing aid and speech learning device for deaf people. The irony is that the widespread use of his invention since then has, more than any other factor, excluded deaf people from the labor market, since they can't normally use unadapted phones.