New research suggests the foundations for reading success begin in toddlerhood. Learn how talking, reading, and word play can ...

Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's ...

Early childhood is a sensitive and dynamic period during which foundational developmental domains—cognitive, motor, language, and social-emotional—undergo rapid transformation. These trajectories are ...

Baby talk isn't just cute—it could play a vital role in helping infants learn the sounds of their language, new research from the University of the Sunshine Coast has found. The study is published in ...

Nearly two million children in the UK are affected by early language delays. New research will examine whether noise in nurseries is a hidden factor. An estimated 1.9 million children across the UK ...

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...

*A new study published in Developmental Science suggests prenatal brain growth may influence early childhood language ...

UNIGE scientists have discovered that children with autism exhibit different brain patterns depending on their language ...

Prelingual single-sided deafness (SSD) not only affects children’s hearing skills, but can also lead to speech-language delays and academic underachievement. Early cochlear implantation leads to ...

Gestures--such as pointing or waving--go hand in hand with a child's first words, and twins lag behind single children in producing and using those gestures, two studies from Georgia State University ...

During this period, roughly covering ages 3 to 5, a child’s personality, interests, and social orientation begin to come into focus, but parents should keep in mind that personality traits, personal ...

Toddlers have mastered some language fluency and may "speak to learn," involving higher-level cognitive processing, while the development of verbal abilities may start earlier. The team also found ...