Early problems with language can have a lasting negative impact on social and emotional development. Building on this ...

Does screen time cause behavioral problems? New research shows that solitary screen time worsens social-emotional outcomes for preschoolers with language delays.

One of the joys of parenthood is watching your child reach milestones as they grow to become their own person: first laugh, first roll over, first steps. But one milestone parents really look forward ...

April 2, 2026 - Julie Edwards' daughter brought home a Chromebook from school in second grade to work on math and reading. But soon she was watching Youtube videos. If you’re enrolling your child in ...

It’s true. According to researchers, babies are born with a special gift: their developing brains can tell the difference between the approximately 800 sounds that make up all the languages in the ...

Children learn language effortlessly and completely voluntarily. They learn new words miraculously fast. A teenager masters about 60,000 words of their mother tongue by the time they finish high ...

Kids can learn languages really easily, which makes a lot of adults wonder why it is so hard for them to do the same thing when they are older. Kids can figure out how to say words and understand the ...

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 ...

Each child underwent a series of three language tasks that required different levels of social interaction: a looking task, a pointing task, and a production task that required children to say the ...

As young children, how do we build our vocabulary? Even by age 1, many infants seem to think that if they hear a new word, it means something different from the words they already know. But why they ...