High School Students With Reading Comprehension Difficulties: Results of a Randomized Control Trial of a Two-Year Reading Intervention

Journal of Learning Disabilities

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 546-558

  Vaughn, Sharon ^a   Roberts, Greg ^a   Wexler, Jade ^b   Vaughn, Michael G ^c   Fall, Anna Mária ^a   Schnakenberg, Jennifer B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

comprehension; content acquisition; high school; intensive reading; intervention

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PROCEDURES; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; EDUCATION, SPECIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; READING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84938573292     PISSN: 00222194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022219413515511     Document Type: Article

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