= Specific reading-comprehension difficulty
Poor understanding of text despite relatively adequate word-reading accuracy. Assessment should examine <oral language>, fluency and higher-level processes rather than infer a single cause from the profile.<Ameliorating children's reading-comprehension difficulties: a randomized controlled trial by Paula J. Clarke and others>[Psychological Science 21, 1106–1116; text/oral/combined interventions, untreated comparison and eleven-month follow-up]{ref}
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