The importance of vocabulary knowledge in reading comprehension is well-recognized, and its relationship with comprehension has been widely explored in previous studies. However, there is limited ...

Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. Reading comprehension is a complex endeavor. It’s heavily dependent on learning new ...

Acquiring literacy (i.e., the ability to read with comprehension) involves language and phonological processing skills and can be challenging for deaf children. Deficits in phonological processing, ...

Hyperlexia first appeared in the literature in a 1967 paper describing young children with reading skills exceeding their language comprehension skills (Silberberg & Silberberg, 1967). The initial ...