CHICAGO - Experts at Northwestern University unveiled a new tool to help track the cognitive, language, motor skills, and ...

New research in early language development has identified an important skill that predicts language gaps as late as age three.

Baby talk is not just a way of engaging with infants on a social level – it has important implications for language development. Babies first start learning language by listening to the rhythm ...

While kids naturally pick up the language around them, it is still a skill that needs to be learned. Parents and caregivers ...

Communicating with babies in infant-directed-speech is considered an essential prerequisite for successful language development of the little ones.

Preterm babies perform as well as their full-term counterparts in a developmental task linking language and cognition, a new study has found. The study, the first of its kind with preterm infants ...

June 15, 2005 Research: Noise, visual cues affect infants' language development WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Even moderate background noise can affect how infants learn language at an early and crucial time ...

Both maternal depression and treatment with selective reuptake inhibitors appear to alter the timing of infant language development. But the exact meaning of this finding is still unclear.

A study in PNAS reveals that infants in a Southern Mexican indigenous community develop language skills through overhearing despite minimal direct speech from caregivers.