Reading Rockets

Healthy hearing is critical to a child’s speech and language development, communication, learning, and social development. Children who do not hear well are at an increased risk of becoming struggling readers.

The purpose of report cards is to communicate about a child’s progress across subject areas. Some kids, especially those having difficulty in school, dread report card time.

Thanks to advances in imaging techniques and scientific inquiry, we now know much more about learning disabilities (LD), dyslexia, and the role of vision problems.

Children begin using their senses to recognize patterns and categorize things at a young age — skills that play an important role in early learning.

Tests are stressful for children of all ages, but necessary because they serve two important purposes: to find out how well an individual student is learning in the classroom, and to find out how well the school is meeting local and national benchmarks