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

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

Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the ...

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 ...

Speech and language development is kind of one of those most important parts of early childhood growth, and if there are delays in this area it can be like a first clue something else is going ...

Researchers create a storybook generation system for personalized vocabulary learning. Professor Inseok Hwang from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, along with students Jungeun Lee, ...

Screens have become ubiquitous in our daily lives—which means they've also become part of children's lives too. So what effect does this have on children's developing brains, especially critical ...

Ear infections are a common childhood experience, but a new study suggests parents should take these infections seriously to preserve their children's language development. That's because each ear ...

Theresa Micheal, CEO of Afrika Tikkun Bambanani, argues that emotional wellbeing is one of the strongest predictors of a ...

Since their launch in 2007, smartphones have become a pervasive part of everyday life that influences interactions between parents and children. Research indicates that while parents typically use ...