Differentiating Reading Profiles of Children With Specific Comprehension Deficits From Skilled Readers: A Systematic Review

Profiles of children with specific reading comprehension difficulties.

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 investigated the consistency of skill impairment in a sample of poor comprehenders to identify any fundamental skill weakness that (i) might be associated with poor text comprehension, and (ii) might lead to depressed readi...

Understanding specific reading comprehension deficit: A review

Lang Linguist Compass. 2017;11:e12234. https://doi.org/10.1111/lnc3.12234 wi Abstract A substantial population of children and adolescents struggle with reading comprehension despite adequate phonemic decoding (word‐level reading) and intellectual ability. Individualswiththispatternofperformanceareconsidered tohave specific readingcomprehensiondeficit (S‐RCD).Despite two decades of study on the...

Reading Comprehension Deficits of Readers with ADHD: Text Processing, Inference Generation and Working Memory

A comparison of temporal integration in children with a specific reading disability and normal readers

Previous research has suggested that whereas some techniques show that subjects with a specific reading disability (SRD) have greater visible persistence than controls, a temporal integration of form technique does not. It has been suggested that the failure of the temporal integration task to show a difference results from the spatial separation between stimuli used in the technique. In this s...

Improving the Reading Comprehension Skills of Poor Readers

Although much has been written about reading comprehension in the last twenty years, theories defining the comprehension process, and strategies on how to teach it still pique the interest of educators. This article addresses the negative effects of poor decoding on reading comprehension, and reviews various strategies that have been used with poor readers to successfully compensate for the pro...