Articles in this section

Read & Remember Articles

SKILL: Reading (also Memory)

DIFFICULTY: 5/5

LEVELS: 4, based on the length and complexity of the text and the question types

BRIEF RATIONALE: This treatment teaches strategies for understanding and recalling paragraph-level material.

In Read & Remember Articles, you will:

  1. Read aloud
  2. Identify key words and phrases
  3. Compare your selection with a model
  4. Summarize the article using the selected words and phrases
  5. Answer 4 open-ended questions about what you’ve read

You can choose reading material from the following categories:

  • Health & Science
  • Leisure & Entertainment
  • History & Culture

HINTS: Hints are available in the lower-left corner of the screen for questions. Using the hints will mark the questions as incorrect (since they were not answered independently).

  • Find: See the section of the text that contains the answer.
  • Multiple Choice: Choose the right answer from three choices.

FOR THE CLINICIAN:

Adults with a brain injury may have trouble remembering details they've read, even if they can recall the gist of information (Rogalski et al., 2014). If they can't recall any details, they would have great difficulty answering comprehension questions about the text.


In a systematic review, Purdy and colleagues (2018) outlined simple strategies to facilitate attentive reading, recall, and comprehension of longer text for people with aphasia, including:

  • Oral reading
  • Using an index card to focus on the current line of text
  • Reading 2-3 sentences at a time
  • Identifying keywords
  • Summarizing

More specifically, Obermeyer & Edmonds (2018)  had subjects compare their keywords with the clinicians' keywords within the Attentive Reading and Constrained Summarization–Written (ARCS-W) approach. Subjects used these keywords to assist with summarization, just like in the Read & Remember Articles treatment. Approaches such as ARCS and ARCS-W help improve reading comprehension by synthesizing essential information (van Boxtel & Weirick, 2025).

Learn more about treating reading impairments in our article, What SLPs Need To Know: Alexia

Selected References:

  1. Obermeyer, J. A., & Edmonds, L. A. (2018). Attentive reading with constrained summarization adapted to address written discourse in people with mild aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 27(1S), 392–405.
  2. Purdy, M., Coppens, P., Madden, E. B., Mozeiko, J., Patterson, J., Wallace, S. E., & Freed, D. (2018). Reading comprehension treatment in aphasia: A systematic review. Aphasiology, 33(6), 629–651.
  3. Rogalski, Y., Altmann, L. J. P., & Rosenbek, J. C. (2014). Retrieval practice and testing improve memory in older adults. Aphasiology, 28(4), 381–400.

  4. van Boxtel, W. S., & Weirick, J. D. (2025). Reading comprehension in aphasia: A review of research and treatment. Language and Linguistics Compass, 20(1).