Dianna Townsend, Ed.D., professor of literacy studies, plays a crucial role as a co-principal investigator in the Institute of Education Science (IES) grant titled "Words as Tools: Vocabulary ...

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in ...

According to a recent study, toddlers who frequently engage with screens may face setbacks in their language development. Toddlers aged 17 to 30 months spend nearly two hours daily watching videos, ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? All educators in all subjects have to teach vocabulary. If our students don’t know the meanings of the ...

This week’s question is: What are the best instructional strategies for vocabulary development? We started-off in Part One with suggestions from Katie Brown, Jane Fung, Marilee Sprenger and Karen ...

A quick Google search of “technology speech delay” yields countless news articles about how technology use by young children contributes to speech delays. A recent study of almost 900 children showed ...

If you want your child to have a rich and fulfilling life, one of the best things you can do is help build your child’s vocabulary. Research shows strong language ability is associated with a number ...

In recent years, there has been growing concern about the “vocabulary gap” widening between children from different socioeconomic groups. By age 3, it is believed that children growing up in poor ...

Alice Sullivan works on the 1970 British Cohort Study which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council. Reading for pleasure as a child has been powerfully linked in research to the ...