Background: Approximately 5% of school-aged children in the United States receive special education services under the specific learning disabilities category. Additionally, 20% of all students experience difficulty with writing, spelling, and handwriting.Goal: This literature review provides a synthesis of single case studies evaluating the use of self-regulated strategy development SRSD) for students with specific learning disabilities.Method: Percentage of non-overlapping data PND) and Percentage of Data Exceeding the Median (PEM) were used as a common metric to evaluate studies meeting inclusion criteria.Results: Fifteen articles evaluating seven SRSD writing intervention strategies met study inclusion criteria. Both mean PND (89.69%, Range = 38% - 100%) and mean PEM (0.98, Range = 0.91 - 1.00) suggest that SRSD writing interventions are effective to highly effective.Conclusions: Althoudh additional research is needed, the results suggest that self-regulated writing strategies are an effective intervention to support students with specific learning disabilities experiencing difficulty with writing.
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