Don't use baby talk with babies and toddlers. Instead, caregivers are often encouraged to speak properly and use adultlike language, out of concern that simplified speech could confuse children or ...

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New research from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, has significant implications for understanding both ...

Several months ago, my daughter, Penny, and I were walking around Target. She had just turned 1. Penny is typically shy, but she kept saying “hi” to a man nearby. I turned around and quickly saw why: ...

Researchers delve into the bilingual experience and its impact on children's context-sensitive perception of trust, offering insights into how language diversity can enrich and benefit children's ...

When children learn to talk, their ability to pronounce different sounds develops gradually. We asked speech and language ...

What is cognitive development? Expert Dr Samantha Durrant answers parents' questions around this tricky subject, and how it ...

Chronic ear infections could delay a child’s language development, new research suggests. University of Florida researchers launched a study about how the common childhood infection could impact ...

Social interactions in the first months of life are fundamental for babies to learn how to communicate and develop their language skills. Physical contact, touch, smiling and our first face-to-face ...

Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which is published in The Journal of Neuroscience, we enrolled 163 children at ...