Just five years ago, Oliver James couldn’t read. This week, he became a published author. For 32 years of his life, the personal trainer was functionally illiterate. He was branded a troublemaker in ...

Music training seems to boost reading skills in young children by enhancing their ability to recognise and manipulate the sounds that make up words. Learning to play an instrument has long been linked ...

The general assumption in our culture is that children must be taught to read. Vast amounts of research go into trying to figure out the scientifically best way to do this. In the education stacks of ...