Developmental dyslexia and specific language impairment (SLI) were for many years
treated as distinct disorders but are now often regarded as different manifestations of the …

A substantial population of children and adolescents struggle with reading comprehension
despite adequate phonemic decoding (word‐level reading) and intellectual ability …

There is at present no clear consensus as to the nature of the relations between oral
vocabulary and specific literacy skills. The present study distinguished between vocabulary …

Reading comprehension scores from the Wechsler Individual Achievement Tests, the Gates-
MacGinitie Reading Test, and the Gray Oral Reading Test were examined in relation to …

Reading disability (RD) typically consists of deficits in word reading accuracy and/or reading
comprehension. While it is well known that word reading accuracy deficits lead to …

This study examined the structure of oral language and reading and their relation to
comprehension from a latent variable modeling perspective in Kindergarten, Grade 1, and …

Shared book reading is the best way that parents can prepare their children to learn to read
(Anderson, Heibert, Scott, & Wilkerson, 1985). In the last 20 years, parents of young children …

Purpose Preschoolers with language impairment have difficulties with both literal and
inferential language, both of which are critical to later reading comprehension. Because …

This study investigated how measures of decoding, fluency, and comprehension in middle
school students overlap with one another, whether the pattern of overlap differs between …

This is an edited book based on papers presented at a 2003 invitee-only conference under
the sponsorship of the Merrill Advanced Studies Center of the University of Kansas. The …