title: An evaluation of reading comprehension of expository text in adults with traumatic brain injury.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This project was conducted to obtain information about reading problems of adults with traumatic brain injury (TBI) with mild-to-moderate cognitive impairments and to investigate how these readers respond to reading comprehension strategy prompts integrated into digital versions of text.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants from 2 groups, adults with TBI (n = 15) and matched controls (n = 15), read 4 different 500-word expository science passages linked to either a strategy prompt condition or a no-strategy prompt condition. The participants' reading comprehension was evaluated using sentence verification and free recall tasks.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The TBI and control groups exhibited significant differences on 2 of the 5 reading comprehension measures: paraphrase statements on a sentence verification task and communication units on a free recall task. Unexpected group differences were noted on the participants' prerequisite reading skills. For the within-group comparison, participants showed significantly higher reading comprehension scores on 2 free recall measures: words per communication unit and type-token ratio. There were no significant interactions.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The results help to elucidate the nature of reading comprehension in adults with TBI with mild-to-moderate cognitive impairments and endorse further evaluation of reading comprehension strategies as a potential intervention option for these individuals. Future research is needed to better understand how individual differences influence a person's reading and response to intervention.
authors.forename: McKay Moore
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Sohlberg
authors.forename: Gina G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Griffiths
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fickas
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation; D032882:Comprehension; D003463:Cues; D004411:Dyslexia, Acquired / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007807:Language Tests; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall; D011932:Reading; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult