UES School, Research Lab Partner To Study Child Literacy

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — An Upper East Side private school announced a partnership with Connecticut-based research lab Haskins Laboratories to study child literacy at its three campuses.

Haskins Laboratories will establish a state-of-the-art lab at The Windward School's Upper East Side campus, located on East 93rd Street between Second and Third avenues, that will help researchers and teachers develop teaching strategies that best suit each student, school officials said.

The partnership will also allow the school to diagnose language-based learning disabilities in students as young as preschool and develop programs for educators on how to put Haskins Laboratories' research into practice.

The research conducted by Haskins Laboratories will be done in-school using neurocognitive measures such as measuring blood flow and electrical activity in the brain, according to a press release. The methods are non-invasive, school officials said. Researchers will also conduct both cognitive and brain imaging studies.

"This partnership marks a historic moment in The Windward School's 93-year history," John J. Russell, head of The Windward School, said in a statement. "I am proud that Windward will be joining with Haskins Laboratories at the forefront of the continuing efforts to provide all students with language-based learning disabilities with the research-based instruction they need and deserve."