A new study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders suggests that the ability to comprehend complex ...

Reading ability among young people is declining, and it is the most vulnerable students who are hardest hit, according to speech therapist and researcher Anna Eva Hallin. In her research, she aims to ...

Three key skills—academic language, perspective taking, and complex reasoning—can predict how well a student does with the kind of deep reading comprehension required in secondary school and beyond, ...

Evanston/Skokie School District 65 is updating its K-8 literacy curriculum to emphasize necessary foundational skills, including word recognition and language comprehension, needed to read complex ...

Increasing physical fitness levels does have a causal link with better language comprehension, according to the first study ...

As states and districts overhaul the way their schools teach reading, many are banking on one specific professional-learning program to propel this transformation: Language Essentials for Teachers of ...

While kids can pick up new languages at a rapid clip, we adults often struggle to remember the word for fork three months into French class. Historically, this age-related mismatch in language ...

“This provides an important change in our understanding of language comprehension in the brain,” Marek-Marsel Mesulam, lead study author and director of Northwestern’s Cognitive Neurology and ...