When Stories Don't Make Sense

The Gap Between Words and Meaning

Book two of the Marcus Long series, from Patricia McGuire, MD, FAAP, a developmental-behavioral pediatrician with more than 30 years in practice.

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He can read every word on the page out loud, perfectly. Ask him what it was about and he has nothing.

Third grade is where this stops being hideable. His classmates are discussing why a character did what she did, and he is looking at words that never turned into pictures.

Marcus is eight now, and the speech therapy worked. This is the next thing, and it is a real and separate disability. He decodes beautifully. He comprehends almost none of it.

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Written by Patricia McGuire, MD, FAAP, a board-certified pediatrician and Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics. See all of her books.