# Understanding Reading Comprehension: Challenges for Older Students with Reading Disabilities

### At-a-glance

##### Topics
Literacy & reading

##### Resource Types
Excerpts

##### Author
Richard T. Boon Ph.D., Vicky Spencer Ph.D., Sharon Vaughn

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In this introductory chapter excerpt from contributing authors Lindsay J. Flynn and H. Lee Swanson, read about the factors that contribute to poor reading comprehension as well as a synthesis of the intervention research targeting reading problems.

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