A new NIH grant will help researchers use eye-tracking to understand how deaf people process vocabulary and develop reading ...

Words are powerful, and a rich vocabulary can provide young people with significant advantages. Successful vocabulary development is associated with better vocational, academic and health outcomes.

Building better readers should involve more than teaching the core components of early literacy—these five strategies are grounded in science and tested by expert educators.

Children of poverty clearly have slower vocabulary development, and this appears to be related not only to the quantity but also the quality of their interaction with parents (“Research on Quality of ...

University of Georgia undergraduate education classes are tutoring reading skills with kindergarteners this spring in a local high poverty school. We are trying to support the children as they get on ...

U.S. students -- from the richest to the least privileged -- have trouble with words, and they're getting worse. This time, though, it's not just the schools that are failing them. A recent news ...

This study examined the effects of three types of reading interventions on the science text reading of secondary students with learning disabilities (LD). Twenty lOth-grade students with LD ...

About 3,000 Indiana third graders are repeating the grade this year under a new state law that requires students to pass the ...