Literacy skills decline with age

Most Canadians, but especially those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds, experience “significant” literacy loss as adults, a Statistics Canada report shows. The decline in skills begins at age 25, bottoms out around 40 and then tapers off around 55 years old. For example, adults aged 40 scored an average of 288 on a standardized literacy test in 1994, but in a second survey nine years later, that had dropped to 275—a loss of reading ability equal to half a year of schooling. Read more of this article from The Daily News of Halifax.