Study finds that early childhood language skills can lead to school success
A new study, led by researchers at the University of Washington in collaboration with Rebecca Alper, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders, and colleagues from the College of Liberal Arts, looked at a comprehensive set of school readiness skills in order to try to determine which is the most solid predictor of a child’s later success.
Researchers from the University of Delaware and the University of North Carolina also contributed to the project. For the study, researchers examined data from more than 1,200 children in the National Inst...