Reading Comprehension

The ability to understand, interpret, and derive meaning from written text. Reading comprehension involves multiple cognitive processes including decoding words, activating background knowledge, making inferences, and monitoring understanding. It is a key target for reading support technologies, which may enhance comprehension through text simplification, visual augmentation, summarization, or multimodal presentation. Comprehension difficulties can arise from dyslexia, cognitive disabilities, language barriers, or sensory impairments.