Just a few years ago, a set of tests known as “dibbles” would have elicited little more than a chuckle from educators or anyone else. Today, they’re taking it seriously, because the acronym DIBELS has ...

When words fail us, we curse. At least this is what the “poverty-of-vocabulary” (POV) hypothesis would have us believe. On this account, swearing is the “sign of a weak vocabulary”, a result of a lack ...

Claire Lancaster receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council and Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust to investigate speech-based markers of neurodegenerative disease. Alice ...

Researchers find phoneme-processing skills still shape how fast adolescents read texts, but their enjoyment of reading has an ...