The outcome of adult cochlear implantation is predicted positively by the involvement of visual cortex in speech processing, and negatively by the cross-modal recruitment of the right temporal cortex ...

Reading-disabled children often have accompanying deficits in motor coordination. Rather than assuming impairment of a shared neural mechanism, we conjecture that coordination difficulties that ...

This study tested the hypothesis that phonological analysis skills make a unique contribution to reading ability against the hypothesis that one latent phonological factor underlies the associations ...

Dr. Carolyn Quam, an associate professor at the Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences at Portland State University, presented her research at our second annual Yvonne Becker Colloquium on May 30, ...

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 ...

Many states have recently enacted laws or rules designed to ensure that teachers are well versed in evidence-based reading instruction. Here are some highlights. Requires districts to provide core ...