Saturday, April 30
01:30 pm – 03:00 pm

Pediatric
Session 42

Tiffany Hogan, PhD, CCC-SLP
Level of Instruction: Intermediate   –   Agave Ballroom

Multiple pathways to reading comprehension impairment will be described based on recent findings from several longitudinal studies. Implications for the evidence-based assessment and efficacious treatment of children with communication disorders and reading comprehension difficulties will be overviewed.

Learner Outcomes:  At the completion of this presentation, participants will be able to understand the role language processes play in a child’s ability to comprehend texts across grades, summarize the major pathways to breakdowns in reading comprehension based on findings from several recent longitudinal studies and describe evidence-based assessments and efficacious treatments of reading comprehension
difficulties.