Visual representations of narratives for poor comprehenders

Abstract

Poor comprehenders are children with specific reading impairments. Several reading interventions for them, evaluated in the literature, use images for representing textual information in narratives. Our paper overviews several such studies, and highlights current findings and shortcomings in the literature. The results of the overview can be taken up for designing specific evidence-based visual representations of narrative information for poor comprehenders. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.