Educationalists may rail against the increased use of 'txt' shorthand by children in their school work, and that is only proper, for there is a time and a place for everything. However, the ...

Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to your child’s early speech and language development? Speech refers to the production of sounds that transform into words through the physical act of ...

Rett syndrome is a rare neurological condition that disrupts physical and linguistic development, affecting around one in 10,000 women and even fewer men. For decades, researchers assumed that people ...

Research tool measuring how infants build communication skills into spoken language used for first time to study children ...

Nancy Brady has been gratified to see the tool she and colleagues pioneered over a decade ago to measure the growth of infants' pre-speech communication skills translated into several languages and ...

A new study shows that children's abilities to both speak and understand words developed faster when they were with classmates with better language skills. The study involved 1,800 preschoolers in ...

Nancy Brady has been gratified to see the tool she and colleagues pioneered over a decade ago to measure the growth of infants' pre-speech ...

We have been exploring the enigma of language—its power in helping us understand one another, and the mischief caused by misinterpretations. Consider again this excerpt of a letter Wilbur Wright sent ...