Merced, CA–Teaching language is a tough job, but proving student comprehension is even tougher. A team of researchers from University of California campuses in Merced and Santa Cruz hope to change ...

Tests that assess vocabulary among individuals with the severest forms of autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, are notoriously inaccurate. Conventional language assessments, which commonly ask them to ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. A new analysis of federal data that provide a deeper and more systematic look into students’ ability to understand the meaning of words in context than was ...

In a new study, researchers demonstrate that assessment tools capturing implicit signs of word knowledge among those with severe autism like eye movement can be more accurate than traditional ...