A new NIH grant will help researchers use eye-tracking to understand how deaf people process vocabulary and develop reading ...

First grader Aizlynn Castillo works on an assignment in Diana Oviedo-Holguin’s English-learner class at Heritage Elementary ...

As the “science of reading” movement has grown, more districts are moving away from reading programs featuring practices that aren’t supported by research, and toward programs that are rated highly by ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave talk about the brain benefits of quitting cigarettes, language development in premature babies, and a mysterious imprint in a Chicago sidewalk.

One of the best times for fathers to bond with their children is through reading. Bedtime stories don’t just deepen the ...

Volunteers with the LiTEArary society read to children who live in "book deserts" and bring them their own books.

Playing recordings of a mother’s voice to premature babies may help their brains mature faster, according to the first randomised-controlled trial of this simple intervention. This approach could ...