“…Both reading comprehension and spoken language comprehension are highly correlated with vocabulary skill. These relationships hold even when lower‐level skills such as decoding are taken into account (Braze, Tabor, Shankweiler, & Mencl, ; Catts, Fey, & Zhang, ; Landi, ; Muter, Hulme, Snowling, & Stevenson, ; Ouellette, ; Roth, Speece, & Cooper, ; Share, Jorm, Maclean, & Matthews, ; Share & Leikin, ; Spencer, Quinn, & Wagner, ; Stanovich, Cunningham, & Feeman, ; Vellutino & Scanlon, ). Thus, it is not surprising that poor vocabulary knowledge has been consistently associated with S‐RCD (Cain & Oakhill, ; Henderson et al, ).…”