Este artículo está disponible en español. Léelo en español. A 2023 California law requires all students in kindergarten, first and second grade to be screened for risk of reading difficulties, ...

Detecting dementia early is crucial for managing the condition and slowing cognitive decline. While memory loss is the most widely recognised symptom, researchers are discovering other subtle ...

A new literacy screening tool pioneered at Cincinnati Children's Hospital helps identify reading difficulties in children as young as three years old. But the study into early childhood literacy does ...

It’s surprisingly common for children to have both conditions, CU Boulder researcher Erik Willcutt argues in a recently published paper “A lot of kids tend to have both learning and attentional ...

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Helping students learn to read is usually the job of early elementary educators. But teachers of older children—who report that nearly half of their students have difficulty reading—say they need more ...

According to Moorhead Secondary Literacy Specialist Karen Taylor, “the cost of kids leaving schools without learning to read is staggering. This deficit leaves many students underprepared for life ...

The seemingly simple task of reading is anything but simple. The moment our eyes fall on a word, a complex set of processes -- physical, neurological, and cognitive -- is set in motion, enabling us to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The common genetic variation linked to dyslexia may also help explain why some people without the learning difficulty are not good readers, researchers said on Wednesday. The ...