Deadly Home Reading: Enabling Indigenous Children's Literacy & Wellbeing (ARC Linkage Project administered by the Australian Catholic University) (2025-2030)

This project tests the effectiveness of a new parent/carer phonics, oral language and self-concept enhancement home reading intervention on young (K-2) Indigenous children¿s literacy, oral language and self-concept. The project expects to generate new knowledge about effective home reading strategies for Indigenous children by capitalising upon interdisciplinary advances from ¿The Science of Reading¿, research on home reading and the wisdom of Indigenous communities. Expected outcomes include salient intervention and advances in Indigenous education. Benefits are identifying interventions enhancing Indigenous literacy, oral language and self-concept, and delivering successful Indigenous-led research to address community-identified needs.