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Recognizing The Characteristics Of Children With Learning Disabilities And Deciding How To Help Them Is A Problem Faced By Schools All Over The World. Although Some Disorders Are Fairly Easily Recognizable (e.g., Mental Retardation) Or Very Specific To Single Components Of Performance And Quite Rare (e.g., Developmental Dyscalculia), Schools Must Consider Much Larger Populations Of Children With Learning Difficulties Who Cannot Always Be Readily Classified. These Children Present High-level Learning Difficulties That Affect Their Performance On A Variety Of School Tasks, But The Underlying Pro Cover; Reading Comprehension Difficulties: Processes And Intervention; Copyright; Acknowledgments; Contents; Introduction: Reading Comprehension Difficulties; Part I; Chapter One Some Observations On A Simple View Of Reading; Chapter Two The Role Of Inadequate Print Exposure As A Determinant Of Reading Comprehension Problems; Chapter Three Reassessing Children's Comprehension-monitoring Skills; Part Ii; Chapter Four Higher Order Factors In Comprehension Disability: Processes And Remediation; Chapter Five A Comparison Of Reading Comprehension And Decoding Difficulties In Children Chapter Six Profiles Of Reading Comprehension Difficulties: An Analysis Of Single Caseschapter Seven Sources Of Comprehension Failure: Theoretical Perspectives And Case Studies; Part Iii; Chapter Eight Story Knowledge And Comprehension Skill; Chapter Nine A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Classroom: Jokes, Riddles, And Metalinguistic Awareness In Understanding And Improving Poor Comprehension In Children; Chapter Ten Metacognitive Monitoring In The Processing Of Anaphoric Devices In Skilled And Less Skilled Comprehenders; Part Iv Chapter Eleven Reading Comprehension Deficits Arise From Diverse Sources: Evidence From Readers With And Without Developmental Brain Pathologychapter Twelve Success And Failure In Learning To Read: The Special Case (?) Of Deaf Chlldren; Part V; Chapter Thirteen Focusing On Text Comprehension As A Problem-solving Task: A Fostering Project For Culturally Deprived Children; Chapter Fourteen Social Influences On Metacognitive Development In Reading; Author Index; Subject Index Edited By Cesare Cornoldi, Jane Oakhill. Chapters Written By Researchers Based On Presentations Given At A Meeting Sponsored By Bracco And Centro Diagnostico Italiano, Held In Milano On May 27-28, 1994. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. English