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Article: Reading comprehension instruction: summarization and self-monitoring training for students with learning disabilities.
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- Exceptional Children
- Article date:
- December 1, 1991
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It is generally agreed that students with learning disabilities possess academic deficits, particularly in the area of reading (e.g., Torgesen, 1986). What is less commonly agreed on, however, is why these students have such difficulties in reading. Some researchers have claimed that students with learning disabilities lack the necessary visual-perceptual skills (e.g., Fishbein, 1979); others have proposed that these students have auditory-processing deficits (e.g., Cook & Welch, 1980). Other researchers have proposed that these students may lack the attention and self-control necessary to succeed in reading tasks (e.g., Chan & Cole, 1986). Still other researchers have ...