As most parents of small children will reluctantly admit, nothing can occupy a child quite like television. Unfortunately, the scientific evidence suggests that using the boob tube as a babysitter has ...

A recent study published in the journal Infancy found that babies’ ability to match speech to faces predicted their future language abilities. The study followed 103 children from age three months to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Can noise levels in nurseries affect the language development of babies? A new study seeks to understand whether noise makes it ...

Mothers tend to speak less to infants when they're on their smartphones, a new study finds. Moms talked 16% less to their babies when they were fiddling with their phone, researchers found. Shorter 1- ...

While your infant is unlikely to speak intelligibly before their first birthday, it's never too soon to build the foundations for verbal development. And, the beauty is, it's as easy as talking to ...

When their newborn failed a hearing test, Quinn and Kai were distraught. Their pediatrician reassured them their baby was a candidate for a cochlear implant – an electronic device consisting of an ...

Research consistently shows that one of the most powerful things you can do for a baby is read to them, supporting early ...

Studies show that babies and toddlers born during the pandemic are verbalizing less, putting them at risk for future reading difficulties. We know the pandemic has had a serious negative impact on the ...

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When we read, it's very easy for us to tell individual words apart: In written language, spaces are used to separate words from one another. But this is not the case with spoken language – speech is a ...