Once students can decode, they need ongoing and thoughtful instruction to understand, interpret, and engage with what they read.

During this one-hour webinar, Guided Language Acquisition experts will delve into language comprehension through a breakdown of the science of reading with an interactive demonstration. The session ...

Language comprehension and sentence processing represent central pillars in cognitive neuroscience and psycholinguistics, addressing the mechanisms by which humans interpret linguistic input. The ...

"Bend your ear." "Grasping at straws." "Kick the bucket." English is filled with figurative language that makes meaning by evoking physical actions of the human body. During the past decade, a number ...

Tiffany Hogan, a professor at the MGH Institute of Health Professions in Boston and the director of its speech and language literacy lab, and MaryKate DeSantis, a school-based reading ...

Learning a language later in life changes how the two halves of the brain contribute. As skills improve, language comprehension changes hemisphere specialization, but production does not, according to ...

As if wrinkled skin and stiff joints were not enough reason to dread getting older, research also indicates that our cognitive skills decline with age, with potential deficits including less efficient ...

New study discovers three mechanisms of language comprehension paving the way for improving therapy and enhancing outcomes in individuals with language deficits New study discovers three mechanisms of ...