A new study reveals a child's reading skills can be developed with the help of a newly designed child-friendly action video game.
Learning letter-sound correspondences early provides the best possible basis to learning how to read.
Researchers discover a child's ability to read depends mostly on where the child is born, rather than on their individual qualities.
Researchers have identified a connectivity fingerprint that suggests the brain's reading network works across different cognitive domains, even mathematical skills.
A structural brain scaffold in infants serves as a foundation for literacy. Language and reading may refine this pre-existing brain scaffold. The study also reveals robust language networks activate while children sleep if stories are read to them during slumber.
A new study sheds light on how reading shapes our brain and can improve our memory. Those who are not practiced readers, researchers discovered, find it more difficult to distinguish how an object is oriented in space.
A new study reports that reading a good book can help increase mental flexibility.
A new book helps researchers screen for potential reading difficulties in young children.
Researchers study event related potentials to help predict children's reading levels in years to come.
According to a new study, the brain's ability to process consonants in a noisy environment could give clues to a child's literacy potential.
Poor literacy skills or being illiterate is associated with an increased risk of developing anxiety and depression, researchers say. Additionally, poor literacy is also linked to increased feelings of loneliness.
Researchers offer specific guidance to parents about just what kind of talk is most important, and at what ages and stages in a child’s growth.
