Every story, song, or word helps their brain connect language and emotion in ways that last well beyond infancy.

As research continues to support early communication development, sign language programs are becoming increasingly popular ...

Hearing a mother’s voice helps premature babies’ brains grow faster and develop stronger language connections.

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to ...

Babies born too soon seem to have stronger connections in one of the major brain areas that supports language processing if they regularly heard their mother read them a story while in intensive care ...

Language development during early childhood can indicate how well a baby's nervous system was developed in the womb. Prenatal exposure to cortisol – a steroid hormone that helps the body respond to ...

Hearing the sound of their mother’s voice promotes the development of language pathways in the brains of tots born at least ...

It can be surprising to learn that your child's limited motor skills can affect their speech and language. But as early language is connected to everyday activities like getting ready for the day, ...

Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's ...

Language acquisition in early childhood represents a fundamental aspect of human cognitive development, where children rapidly transform acoustic signals into a rich, structured linguistic system.

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...