Understanding sounds in language is a critical building block for child literacy, yet this skill is often overlooked. Researchers have now developed a new software tool to assess children's ...

The Sounds of Reading focuses on phonological awareness, covering many concepts: rhyming, alliteration, sentence segmentation, syllables, onsets, rimes and phonemes. Each concept will be defined and ...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between phonological awareness and music aptitude. I administered the Intermediate Measures of Music Audiation (IMMA) to second-grade ...

The goal of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the Auditory Discrimination in Depth Program (ADD) in remediating the analytic decoding deficits of a group of severe dyslexics. A ...

Phonological awareness is the understanding that spoken words are made up of sounds and recognising how they come together to form words. Children usually develop this skill at around 4 or 5 years old ...

"We shape our buildings and thereafter our buildings shape us." * By grade one, children can pronounce most sounds of first language. * In elementary school, vocabulary grows by 15 to 20 words per day ...