This article presents a critical analysis of empirical studies assessing literacy and other domains of academic achievement among children with cochlear implants. A variety of recent studies have demonstrated benefits to hearing, language, and speech from implants, leading to assumptions that early implantation and longer periods of implant should be associated with higher reading and academic ...

Reading disability (also called reading retardation) is defined as a significant reduction in reading ability relative to general intelligence. Some defintions arbitrarily specify that reading be a certain number of years or academic grades (usually two) below the individual's general intellectual capacity. Other definitions involve a certain percentage of reduction below average reading abilit...

a r t i c l e i n f o The goals of this study were to longitudinally examine the association between social and emotional competence (SEC) and academic achievement in early adolescence, exploring the moderating role of gender in this relation. Using a short-term longitudinal design, self-and teacher-reported indicators of SEC were used to predict early adolescents' (N = 461, Mean age = 12.02 ye...

Research continues to suggest that adolescents struggle with reading, indicating that much work remains to ensure that all students read at levels consistent with the skills required for academic achievement (Biancarosa & Snow, 2006). This article investigates whole class choral reading (WCCR) within the context of a sixth-grade language arts setting for the purpose of improving oral reading fl...

This mixed-method research used questionnaires, in-depth interviews, and open-ended questions as the instrument of data collection. Twenty-five samples were selected randomly from 112 populations. The objectives study to explore online reading strategies in academic by foreign language learners during Covid 19 outbreak. revealed that: Using varied four different types, namely global strategy, p...

the factor structure of the listening section of a persian language proficiency test (plpt), developed and used for academic purposes, was examined in this study. a structural equation modeling (sem) was employed using amos (v. 18) to analyze the responses of a number of persian language learners (n=120) who participated in the first piloting phase of the test in 2014. to examine whether the li...