Uncover how the brains of infants distinguish differences in sounds and it may become possible to correct language problems even before children start to speak, sparing them the difficulties that ...

June 15, 2005 Research: Noise, visual cues affect infants' language development WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Even moderate background noise can affect how infants learn language at an early and crucial time ...

Baby talk is not just a way of engaging with infants on a social level – it has important implications for language development. Babies first start learning language by listening to the rhythm ...

Communicating with babies in infant-directed-speech is considered an essential prerequisite for successful language development of the little ones.

New research in early language development has identified an important skill that predicts language gaps as late as age three.

Preterm babies perform as well as their full-term counterparts in a developmental task linking language and cognition, a new study has found. The study, the first of its kind with preterm infants ...

A study in PNAS reveals that infants in a Southern Mexican indigenous community develop language skills through overhearing despite minimal direct speech from caregivers.

A new study coming from researchers with the Society for Research in Child Development found parents' smartphone usage could impact an infant's language development. The study was completed with a ...

Both maternal depression and treatment with selective reuptake inhibitors appear to alter the timing of infant language development. But the exact meaning of this finding is still unclear.

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 ...

It’s back-to-school time, and this past summer’s hot weather may have kept you cooped up inside with air conditioning more ...