There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

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 …

" Reviewing the state of the science of learning disabilities (LD) and describing effective
educational practices, this authoritative text has been significantly revised and expanded …

The lexical quality hypothesis (LQH) claims that variation in the quality of word
representations has consequences for reading skill, including comprehension. High lexical …

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 …

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 …

We present a meta-analysis to test the validity of the Simple View of Reading Gough &
Tunmer (Remedial and Special Education, 7: 6–10, 1986) for beginner readers of English …

Purpose To examine concurrently and retrospectively the language abilities of children with
specific reading comprehension deficits (“poor comprehenders”) and compare them to …

Difficulties in inhibitory processes have been shown to characterize the performance of poor
comprehenders. However, the inhibitory inefficiency of poor comprehenders is most often …