caa a22 4500 469067004 CHVBK 20180323132911.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01027150 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01027150 Reading comprehension difficulties in children [Elektronische Daten] The role of language comprehension and working memory skills [Susan Stothard, Charles Hulme] This paper reports two studies investigating the nature of comprehension deficits in a group of 7-8 year old children whose decoding skills are normal, but whose reading comprehension skills are poor. The performance of these poor comprehenders was compared to two control groups, Chronological-Age controls and Comprehension-Age controls. The first study examined whether these comprehension difficulties are specific to reading. On two measures of listening comprehension the poor comprehenders were found to perform at a significantly lower level than Chronological-Age controls. However, they did not differ from a group of younger children matched for reading comprehension skills. This indicates that the observed comprehension difficulties are not restricted to reading, but rather represent a general comprehension limitation. The second study investigated whether these comprehension difficulties can be explained in terms of a memory deficit. The short-term and working memory skills of these three groups were examined. The poor comprehenders did not differ from their Chronological-Age controls on either of these tasks. In conclusion, it is argued that working memory processes are not a major causal factor in the creation of the comprehension difficulties identified in the present group of poor comprehenders. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Children nationallicence Comprehension deficits nationallicence Language comprehension nationallicence Reading comprehension nationallicence Short-term memory nationallicence Working memory nationallicence Stothard Susan Department of Psychology, University of York, Y01 5DD, Heslington, York, United Kingdom aut Hulme Charles Department of Psychology, University of York, Y01 5DD, Heslington, York, United Kingdom aut Reading and Writing Kluwer Academic Publishers 4/3(1992-09-01), 245-256 0922-4777 4:3<245 1992 4 11145 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01027150 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01027150 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stothard Susan Department of Psychology, University of York, Y01 5DD, Heslington, York, United Kingdom aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hulme Charles Department of Psychology, University of York, Y01 5DD, Heslington, York, United Kingdom aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Reading and Writing Kluwer Academic Publishers 4/3(1992-09-01), 245-256 0922-4777 4:3<245 1992 4 11145 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer