Growing up in a language-rich environment is associated with younger children's language development, their social and emotional development, their IQ and their how their brains develop.

Parents of young children can fall prey to the hype of “educational” media. But the benefits of play and social interaction far outweigh screen gains for young children.

Molnar said young children learn language by listening to the sounds and by watching the movement of the speaker's tongue and mouth. They also pick up on context from facial expressions.

The researchers examined the correlation between screen time spent alone or together with the parent, and different domains of language in children between 2.5 and 4 years of age. Finnish-speaking ...

Children learn to understand language and to speak largely independently of cognitive functions like spatial awareness, working (short-term) memory and perception (interpreting and organizing ...

A recent study by the National Institutes of Health has shown that children spending approximately 2 hours on screens have lower thinking/reasoning power and language processing ability.

Language development calendar Speech, like so many milestones, will develop at varying rates in children, but here is a rough guide to what they may say and when ...

CHILDREN’S speech and language skills have been hit due to Covid-19, with the lack of face to face support cited as a particular problem.

Bio Dr. Elizabeth (Mandy) Kay-Raining Bird (PhD Madison, Wisconsin) is a professor in the School of Communication Sciences and Disorders at Dalhousie University and a certified speech-language ...