Adults need to guide kids’ interactions with AI, and teach the difference between talking to a machine and a human.

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 ...

A new study found that the leading environmental factor influencing brain structure and function is the socioeconomic status ...

Should you speak more than one language in the house? Do bilingual babies talk later? Speech and language therapist Monal ...

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 ...

CHAPEL HILL - In families with two working parents, fathers had greater impact than mothers on their children's language development between ages 2 and 3, according to a study by the University of ...

New research suggests the foundations for reading success begin in toddlerhood. Learn how talking, reading, and word play can ...

A new study finds the value of using 'parentese,' an exaggerated speaking style that conveys total engagement with a child. Used in virtually all of the world's languages, parentese is a speaking ...

Twins produce fewer gestures and gesture to fewer objects than other children. Language use also lags for twins, and language -- but not gesture -- is also affected by sex, with girls performing ...