This paper describes the development of a listening comprehension test based upon the hypothesis that for disadvantaged children a listening test with appropriate content would prove significantly ...

To determine the relationships between measures of oral language production and measures of listening skill, 2 groups, each with 48 black pupils, were randomly selected from the third grades in 2 ...

Hyperlexia first appeared in the literature in a 1967 paper describing young children with reading skills exceeding their language comprehension skills (Silberberg & Silberberg, 1967). The initial ...

Samrat feels very proud that whatever his daughter Suhani hears, she remembers it immediately. But every time in PTM, Suhani's mother is told that Suhani answers every question in the class, but her ...

This article by Stephanie N. Del Tufo, assistant professor of education and human development at the University of Delaware, has been republished with permission from The Conversation’s Curious Kids ...

The content of a children's book -- not its form as a print book or a digital book -- predicts how well children understand a story, finds a new study. The content of a children's book -- not its form ...

Children now prefer listening to audiobooks and podcasts to reading, a new survey shows for the first time. The National Literacy Trust found the proportion enjoying audio texts surpassed those ...

Most studies of children with SMA1 have focused on physical function, not their intellectual and language abilities. Children with SMA1 have general intelligence and language comprehension in the ...