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Thursday, November 27, 2008

Learning Disabilities- What are the Learning Disabilities in Reading Comprehension?

http://learningdisabilities.about.com/od/learningdisabilitybasics/p/rdgcomprhnsn.htm
Rating: 17
Site Summary:
“A
learning disability in reading comprehension that affects the learner's ability to understand the meaning of words and passages. Students with LDs in reading comprehension may also have difficulty with basic reading skills such as decoding words, but understanding is the greater weakness.”
We chose this site because it talks about reading disabilities having to do directly with comprehension.

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