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Parents, teachers, and researchers alike are interested in promoting children’s academic competence. Academic achievement has been linked to many factors. This article explores the role of family income in students’ academic achievement. 

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Parents, teachers, and researchers alike are interested in promoting children's academic competence. Academic achievement has been linked to many factors. This article discusses the role of parenting styles in students' academic achievement. 

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Parents, teachers, and researchers alike are interested in promoting children's academic competence. Academic achievement has been linked to many factors. This article discusses the role of parental involvement in students' academic achievement. 

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If the word is familiar, the “visual route” is followed. If the reader sees a less familiar or a new word, the “phonological route” is followed.

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In recent years, evidence that rapid naming skill is associated with reading ability has become increasingly prevalent. Rapid naming, or rapid automatized naming (RAN), is the ability to name letters, symbols, words, or objects quickly and automatically.

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Georgiou et al. (2012) conducted a study exploring the potential relationship between dyslexia and auditory and visual processing deficits. The results indicated that the children with dyslexia did not experience auditory processing deficits, but about half showed visual processing deficits.

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According to Frith, children develop reading in four stages: symbolic stage, pictorial stage, alphabetic stage, and orthographic stage.

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A study showed that visual form perception had close relations with both reading comprehension and arithmetic computation.

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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, engineer, architect, inventor, scientist, and naturalist. Leonardo is also known for his dyslexia because he wrote his notes backward, from right to left, in a mirror image.

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These two scans both belong to three-year-olds, so why is one so much bigger? Because one was loved by their parents and the other was neglected.

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One of the most striking findings in psychology is that almost all cognitive abilities are positively related. On average, people who are better at a skill like reasoning are generally also better at a skill like vocabulary.

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It would be revolutionary if a special font could improve the reading performance of children and adults with dyslexia. Or if a font can boost brain-based skills like memory.

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