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Re:Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @08:56AM (#25833406)
I'd say that there can be degrees of reading comprehension, and I tend to view functional illiteracy as literacy attrition, kind of secondary illiteracy. I guess it's useful to distinguish it from strict illiteracy (somebody not having learned how to read in the first place), as it requires a different kind of treatment, even if the symptoms of both are similar.
Re:Nearly half of adult Canadians struggle with literacy on Tuesday January 19, 2021 @04:38AM (#25831612)
> Does it include "reading comprehension"?

"Literacy"? Not really. AFAIK, there's the "functional literacy" term for that.

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