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Brez, Caitlin; Sheets, Virgil – Learning Environments Research, 2017
Despite research demonstrating the importance of recess and free play for children, schools have been reducing free play time for more academic pursuits (Ramstetter et al. in "J Sch Health" 80:517-526, 2010; Waite-Stupiansky and Findlay in "Educ Forum" 66:16-25, 2001). Recently, there has been renewed interest in understanding…
Descriptors: Educational Benefits, Recess Breaks, Play, Children
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Welty, Yumiko Tanaka; Menn, Lise; Oishi, Noriko – Topics in Language Disorders, 2014
Japan has been considered dyslexia-free because of the nature of the orthography, which consists of the visually simple kana syllabary and some thousands of visually complex, logographic kanji characters. It is true that few children struggle with learning kana, which provide consistent mappings between symbols and their pronunciation. Indeed,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dyslexia, Orthographic Symbols, Pronunciation