The Catherine McAuley Center assesses new arrivals to the area to determine how best to support them as they resettle in Iowa. The majority of Afghan arrivals assessed so far are considered emerging ...

Literacy is important for everyone including individuals with dual sensory and multiple impairments. Literacy is comprised of word knowledge, reading, communicating and writing. Just as teachers and ...

Just as a gardener plants seeds and nurtures them into strong, flourishing plants, early childhood educators have the opportunity to nurture the earliest seeds of literacy in young children. When ...

Researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center have developed a new framework for different factors influencing how a child's brain is "wired" to learn to read before kindergarten. This ...

This article reviews the literature on emergent literacy in young deaf children, focusing on the nature and course of both emergent reading and emergent writing. Beginning with definitions and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Phonological awareness, phonological memory, and phonological access to lexical storage play important roles in acquiring literacy. We ...

Dr. Geetha Murali is Chief Executive Officer of Room to Read, a leading international educational organization that believes “World Change Starts with Educated Children”®. Its programmes have reached ...

Digital reading and early literacy were among the hot topics at the annual meeting of the American Education Research Association, held here last week. Following is a round-up of four pending papers ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich.—A young faculty member who already is becoming known internationally in the field of literacy studies will be honored by Western Michigan University as an emerging scholar during a ...