Considers the difficulties experienced by" typically" developing children with a specific
reading comprehension deficit. We term these children" typically" developing, because they …

In this chapter we consider the nature and the source of difficulties experienced by children
with a specific type of comprehension deficit, children who have developed age-appropriate …

The goal of the present study was to test three competing hypotheses about the nature of
comprehension problems of students who are poor in reading comprehension. Participants …

Comprehension is the ultimate aim of reading and listening. How do children develop the
ability to comprehend written and spoken language, and what can be done to help those …

Developmental difficulties with reading comprehension are not uncommon. This article
examines the nature of reading comprehension deficits in three groups of children: children …

The aim of this chapter is to review what is known about reading comprehension difficulties
in children, with a view to addressing two major issues. First, although individuals who …

In this article we consider the difficulties of children who have a specific reading
comprehension problem. Our earlier work has shown that good and poor comprehenders …

The goal of reading is to extract meaning from text, and this depends upon both decoding
and language-comprehension skills. Recently there has been growing interest in children …

Purpose To examine concurrently and retrospectively the language abilities of children with
specific reading comprehension deficits (“poor comprehenders”) and compare them to …

Background. Children with fluent and accurate word reading in the presence of poor text
comprehension are impaired on a wide range of reading‐related tasks. Aims. This study …