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 ...

Overhearable speech (speech that may occur when caregivers are talking to each other in a child's presence) constitutes more ...

A major study involving nearly 2.8 million children across 64 countries has found a link between increased screen time and poorer outcomes in children’s learning, language development, and emotional ...

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Professor Carri Westgarth, Chair in Human and Animal Interaction, University of Liverpool is an author of a recently published article in BMC Pediatrics on companion animals and child development ...

A massive study reviewing screen use and child development has found links between higher screen exposure and poorer outcomes for children.

Learning French while also developing language skills in one's mother tongue is no easy task. As a result, allophone children often face learning and communication difficulties in kindergarten, which ...

Research involving children aged three to eight suggests interactive and educational content matters more than screen duration, while only one in five parents stays with children during screen use ...

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 ...