“Dr. Holt, I need you to come listen to one of my second graders. This is one of my best students, but I’m worried I might be overlooking a speech or language disorder—I’m just not sure,” the teacher ...

In 2014, Ivan Crewkov moved his family from Siberia to the U.S. as his startup, Cubic.AI, was preparing to launch a Kickstarter campaign for its smart speaker. A week before the campaign was supposed ...

While PBS itself won’t shut down anytime soon, they have now lost their largest source of financial support. This loss more ...

Novi Rahayu Restuningrum secured a funding from the Indonesian government through DIKTI program to continue her PhD from 2011 to 2015 at Monash University, Australia. The use of English in everyday ...

A powerful collaboration among two universities and a tech giant is working to develop a mobile app that will enable parents of deaf children to more easily learn American Sign Language. The game is ...

First graders (from left) Mu July Htoo, Mya Paw, Say Ku Paw and Soe Paw participated in an English as a Second Language class at Wallace Elementary in Dallas. The majority of the students in this ...

Children often learn new languages more easily than adults do, but it’s unclear why. Some hypothesize that grasping a language requires absorbing subtle patterns unconsciously and that adults’ ...

Immigrant parents worry their children will struggle with reading and fret that as non-English speakers, they can't help. A new study shows that's simply not true. Reading to a young child in any ...

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