Reading and writing multidigit numbers requires accurate switching between Arabic spoken number words. This is particularly challenging in languages with number-word inversion such as German (24 pronounced four-and-twenty), reported by Zuber, Pixner, Moeller, Nuerk (2009, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2008.04.003). The current study aimed to replica...

The present paper provides details of a significant classroom based research study that explored the status reading and comprehension instructions in early primary classrooms Indian context. It is as there has been dearth any these fields—early reading, school years, grade India. was exploratory, descriptive qualitative nature. examines nature instructions, quality experiences, whether experien...

AIM Basic verbal and academic skills can be adversely affected by early-onset diabetes, although these skills have been studied less than other cognitive functions. This study aimed to explore the mechanism of learning deficits in children with diabetes by assessing basic verbal and academic skills in children with early-onset diabetes and in comparison children. In addition, the incidence of d...

OBJECTIVE To examine how gradients in socioeconomic status (SES) impact US children's reading and math ability at kindergarten entry and determine the contributions of family background, health, home learning, parenting, and early education factors to those gradients. METHODS Analysis of 6600 children with cognitive assessments at kindergarten entry from the US Early Childhood Longitudinal Bi...

This editorial provides a summary of the highlights from 11 new papers that have been published in a special issue of Brain and Language on the neurobiology of reading. The topics investigate reading mechanisms in both adults and children. Several of the findings illustrate how responses in the left ventral occipito-temporal cortex, and other reading areas, change with learning, expertise and t...

______________ This research was conducted to study the effects of field-based clinical tutoring on struggling readers. Struggling readers from two grade levels, 3 and 5 were randomly divided into two groups. One group received individualized tutoring in reading for a semester from apprentice reading clinicians (graduate students in Reading Program) and the other group did not. There were 13 se...

Minority language and low socioeconomic status (SES) students are at high risk for language and learning disabilities. In an attempt to 'catch them before they fall', an early reading project was initiated in four kindergarten classes, in a low-SES bilingual school (English/French as a second language), where minority language children form a majority. The project included: (1) teaching reading...