Discrepancy between single-word reading and word comprehension: With advanced decoding skills but struggle with comprehending meaning and understanding sentences.

Findings:

• Comprehension disorder becomes diagnosable by middle school.
• Distinctive differences in neuropsychological profile between children with comprehension difficulties and children with developmental dyslexia.
• The discrepancy between single-word recognition and vocabulary or single-word recognition and reading comprehension, or comprehension deficit is observed comparably as often as developmental dyslexia in the general population.