Understanding Writing Difficulties through a Model of the Cognitive Processes Involved in Writing

The cognitive tradition of writing research has produced a number of models of the processes involved in producing written text. The models and frameworks have mainly been derived from work on competent adult writers, although there are a growing number of investigations of the writing development of younger children. (For example, until recently 80% of peer reviewed studies on writing were on adults; Juzwik et al., 2006). These many models rely on traditional cognitive research methods to determine the processes involved with writing. Children with “specific learning disorder” in dsm-5 include those with difficulties in learning, reading, maths, and written