Reading Comprehension Difficulties: Processes and Intervention / Edition 1

ISBN-13: 9780805818451 Publisher: Taylor & Francis Publication date: 08/01/1996 Pages: 390 Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.18(h) x (d) Lexile: 1420L (what's this?) Recognizing the characteristics of children with learning disabilities and deciding how to help them is a problem faced by schools all over the world. Although some disorders are fairly easily recognizable (e.g., mental retardation) or very specific to single components of performance and quite rare (e.g., developmental dyscalculia), schools must consider much larger populations of children with learning difficulties who cannot always be readily classified. These children present high-level learning difficulties that affect their performance on a variety of school tasks, but the underlying problem is often their difficulty in understanding written text. In many instances, despite good intellectual abilities and a superficial ability to cope with written texts and to use language appropriately, some children do not seem