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Children develop at different rates and in different ways, especially when it comes to speech and language development. For many children, slight delays in mastering language are normal and resolve ...

Bilingual children from low-income homes are at greater risk of falling behind their peers in developing the appropriate language skills for their age group, leading to poorer academic achievement ...

Devices including TVs, smartphones and tablets could change the brain structures of young children, according to scientists—who fear such technology could affect the development of language and ...

Cognitive scientists have now found that conversation between an adult and a child appears to change the child's brain, and that this back-and-forth conversation is actually more critical to language ...

Previous research shows that conversational turns (interactive conversations) between parents and children are important for a child’s long-term language development and academic achievement and that ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Often marketed as educational, electronic toys have the ...

Studycat introduces a vocabulary-first French learning track that helps kids build core words through play, with ...

Previous work suggests that most clinically significant language difficulties in children do not result from acquired brain lesions or adverse environmental experiences but from genetic factors that ...

A new study will investigate whether noise levels in nurseries affect the language development of babies. Researchers at the University of East London said nearly 2 million children in the UK are ...

When I was a child, I became accustomed to ear infections. At least once a year, I would feel the telltale symptoms: pressure, the uncanny feeling of being underwater when I tried to swallow, and ...