As educators in the Assessment for Learning Projec t (ALP) community have worked to fundamentally rethink assessment, many have bumped up against some deeply ingrained beliefs and assumptions about ...

Children who move while learning sounds of letters significantly improve their ability to recognize individual letter sounds. This is the conclusion of a new study conducted by the University of ...

Learning to make sounds by listening to others is a skill that makes us human. But new research suggests a species of monkey may have evolved similar abilities. Marmosets have the capacity to learn ...

Of all the world's animals, only humans, some kinds of birds and perhaps some porpoises and whales learn the sounds they use to communicate with each other through a process of listening, ...

Cochlear implants give children with profound hearing loss a much better chance to learn spoken language. However, the sounds ...

(HawaiiNewsNow) - At first glance Sounds of Success Preschool and Learning Center looks and sounds like most other preschools on the island. Brightly colors walls proudly display creative artwork of ...

About 35 years ago, I stood at the kitchen sink washing dishes when my 7-year-old son asked me, “Mom, do you know what the color green sounds like?” I stopped what I was doing and ...

Why are some animals good at learning sounds? Did this skill appear when animals started 'faking' their body size by lowering calls? In a new study on a wide range of mammals,researchers revisit this ...

Babies are natural learners, constantly picking up clues about the world around them. A new study has found that babies as young as four months old can learn how sounds are made, even from languages ...