Literacy-supporting skills in college students with specific reading comprehension deficit and developmental language disorder.

ABSTRACT: Specific reading comprehension deficit (S-RCD) and developmental language disorder (DLD) are both commonly occurring developmental disorders of language. The ways in which these disorders do and do not overlap during childhood are a matter of debate (Nation & Norbury, 2005). Moreover, in both populations, the challenges faced by individuals in adulthood are understudied. Here, we combined data across cohorts of college students, and classified individuals with only S-RCD (n = 20), only DLD (n = 55), and co-occurring S-RCD and DLD (n = 13). Individuals with good language and reading skills, who matched those with S-RCD on decoding, comprised our typical language and reading group (TD; n = 20). Beyond the measures used for classification, group-level differences were identified in sentence-l

SUBMITTER: Earle FS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10767755 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature