Raise the topic of young children and media use, and everyone has an opinion. From media teetotalers to evangelists, positions on either extreme of the spectrum can be quite fierce about the value—or ...

In 2014, the California State Board of Education adopted the evidence-based and standards-driven English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework (ELA/ELD Framework) — nonbinding guidance ...

Coding skills have long been associated with workforce readiness and the digital fluency that students will need to thrive in the modern workplace. But the benefits of coding also extend to more ...

Self-regulation is children's abilities to keep information in their working memories, pay attention to tasks and even to inhibit behaviors that might prevent them from accomplishing tasks. Turns out, ...

But an in-depth look at the science behind how language is developed reveals an interesting parallel between the science of reading and second language learning. In fact, the science of reading can ...

Every parent wants to know that his or her child will enter school and be placed in an environment that will foster language and literacy development. It is a known fact that new school entrants ...

Dyslexia, a learning disability that makes it difficult to decipher and spell written words, affects about 20 percent of the population. With recent awareness of dyslexia’s prevalence has come a push ...

MARSHALL, Texas (KLTV) - East Texas Baptist University announced Monday that they celebrated the grand opening of the William B. Dean, M.D. Center for Language and Literacy Development with a ...

This project seeks to extend the results of two previous studies (Bruce & Conlon, 2005; Bruce, Randall, & Birge, 2008) by revisiting the case of a now 21 year-old young man who is congenitally ...

Figure 1: History of low reading scores despite increased funding. How do phonemes come to be represented in the brain, and why do so many children with LLI have weak or imprecise phonological ...

Some food for thought in your professional career Developing Language and Literacy with Young Children. By Marian R Whitehead. (Paul Chapman, 15.99, 020 7374 0645) Developing Language and Literacy ...

In the national year of communication, research by Nursery World and the National Literacy Trust shows the early years sector to be highly motivated, but in need of more support. Nursery World's ...