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More thorough developmental screenings recommended

In an effort to improve long-term outcomes, a leading group of pediatricians says doctors should routinely evaluate babies and young children for motor skills delays. The American Academy of Pediatrics said in a clinical report published this month that motor skills assessments...

source: Disability Scoop
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In an effort to improve long-term outcomes, a leading group of pediatricians says doctors should routinely evaluate babies and young children for motor skills delays. The American Academy of Pediatrics said in a clinical report published this month that motor skills assessments...

source: Disability Scoop

For most of her childhood and adolescence, school was a struggle for Karen Tillery. Reading caused painful headaches, teachers' lectures were garbled with the voices of her classmates and new concepts didn't register immediately, if at all, and the reasons why were a mystery....

source: Las Cruces Sun-News

Many elementary students' math performance improves when their teachers collaborate, work in professional learning communities or do both, yet most students don't spend all of their elementary school years in these...

source: American Sociological Association via Science Daily

A new brain imaging study appears to rule out one potential cause of dyslexia, finding that vision problems don't lead to the common reading disorder. The new research could have a wide-ranging impact on the detection and treatment of dyslexia, said senior study author Guinevere...

source: HealthDay News

Governors and education chiefs from nine states said Tuesday that a focus on early-childhood education, the changing dynamic of families and supporting low-income students could help improve literacy across the country. Discussing the...

source: The Washington Post

Renewing the effort to revise No Child Left Behind, the signature Bush-era federal education law, Sen. Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa, introduced a new version that he said would "replace the failed tenets" of the law. Less than two years after Congress last tried to update...

source: The New York Times

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