Humans differ in innumerable ways, with considerable variation observable at every level of
description, from the molecular to the social. Traditionally, linguistic and psycholinguistic …

This volume reports the findings of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority
Children and Youth. The formal charge to the panel—a distinguished group of expert …

Background Diagnosis of 'specific'language impairment traditionally required nonverbal IQ
to be within normal limits, often resulting in restricted access to clinical services for children …

Listening comprehension and word decoding are the two major determinants of the
development of reading comprehension. The relative importance of different language skills …

Reading comprehension is a complex task which depends on a range of cognitive and
linguistic processes. According to the Simple View of Reading, this complexity can be …

The two major determinants of reading comprehension are language comprehension and
decoding, but prior studies of the development of reading comprehension from an early age …

The ultimate aim of reading is not the process but to understand what we read and
comprehension can take place at many different levels. There has been an increasing …

We report a longitudinal study investigating the predictors of reading comprehension and
word reading accuracy between the ages of 7 to 8 (UK Year 3) and 10 to 11 years (Year 6) …

Despite a long‐standing awareness of academic language as a pedagogically relevant
research area, the construct of academic‐language proficiency, understood as a more …

An on-going debate surrounds the relationship between specific language impairment and
developmental dyslexia, in particular with respect to their phonological abilities. Are these …