As a group, poor comprehenders (children who have poor reading comprehension despite
age-appropriate decoding abilities) have often been shown to have vocabulary difficulties …

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 …

This chapter synthesizes the scientific research on children's reading comprehension
difficulties to address the critical issues. Reading comprehension problems must be …

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 …

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 …

This study explores the incidence of poor comprehenders, that is, children identified as
having reading comprehension difficulties, despite age-appropriate word reading skills. It …

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 …

This chapter is about children with poor reading comprehension. We focus on children
whose text comprehension difficulties are unexpectedly poor in relation to their age …

Purpose: Although deaf children typically exhibit severe delays in reading achievement,
there is a paucity of research looking at their text-level comprehension skills. We present a …