LD Children's Comprehension of Selected Textual Features: Effects of Proximity of Information

This study investigated elementary-age LD children's ability to comprehend narrative text when information explicitly identified as being important to resolving a goal statement was systematically dispersed or centralized within a text. Responses to comprehension questions and recall measures specific to a resolution of the goal statements were analyzed after LD children read and listened to six passages. Repeated-measures ANOVA revealed no statistically significant effect for input mode on either measure. A statistically significant effect was found for proximity of information on both the comprehension and the recall measure.