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<url><loc>https://secondaryschoolslt.com/2026/06/26/difficulties-with-text-cohesion-why-some-students-struggle-to-understand-connected-text/</loc><news:news><news:publication><news:name>Thoughts of a secondary school SLT</news:name><news:language>en</news:language></news:publication><news:publication_date>2026-06-26T09:25:49+00:00</news:publication_date><news:title>Difficulties with text cohesion: Why some students struggle to understand connected text</news:title><news:keywords>education, Speech and language therapy, developmental language disorder, DLD, adolescents, secondary school, later language development, Language disorders, SALT, text cohesion devices, ellipsis, reference, substitution, lexical reiteration, collocation</news:keywords></news:news></url></urlset>