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.