To get hold of the wrong end of the stick: Reasons for poor idiom understanding in children with reading comprehension difficulties

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 1538-1549

  Cain, Kate ^a,b   Towse, Andrea S ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Context; Idioms; Language comprehension; Semantic analyzability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MALE; PERFORMANCE; READING; SEMANTICS;

CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; METAPHOR; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 56849086267     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2008/07-0269)     Document Type: Article

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