Children with a limited vocabulary at the age of 5 may be at risk of poor literacy as adults. Researchers studied 11,349 UK adults who were part of a long-term national study of children born in 1970.

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Children with a limited vocabulary at the age of 5 may be at increased risk of poor literacy as adults, a study published Monday suggests. UK researchers found that among ...