Project	leader,	Associate	Professor	Tess	Lea	from	the	School		 for	Social	and	Policy	Research	at	Charles	Darwin	University,	 said	that	despite	specific	attempts	to	improve	literacy	skills	in	 four	to	eight-year-old	Indigenous	children	in	recent	years,	 statistics	indicated	there	was	still	a	significant	proportion		 that	were	failing	to	learn	basic	reading	skills.