The relationship between visual metaphor comprehension and recognition of similarities in children with learning disabilities

► Children with learning disabilities demonstrate metaphor comprehension deficits. ► Children with LD underscored TD children in conventional and idiom comprehension. ► LD children performed equally well in visual and novel metaphor comprehension. ► In the LD group, analogical thinking facilitates visual metaphor comprehension ► In the TD group, metaphor comprehension correlates with semantic knowledge.