Supporting Research

Early childhood research shows:

• personal experience is the foundation for language development.
• language development is the foundation for literacy development.

LiteraSci:

• provides a rich, hands-on setting for learning.
• addresses the achievement gap that results from different family environments.
• develops a rich, age appropriate knowledge base reinforcing language and literacy skills.

Research by investigators not associated with our team, supported by funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, shows that the program can be successfully used with children with developmental disabilities.  The preschool children with disabilities in this program for one academic year showed statistically significant gains across a variety of measures of academic and social competence.  dx.doi.org/10.1080/09362830701796776