A collection of films and articles all about the science behind your baby's early development and language learning.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emphasizing the sounds of certain words to young children can help them retain language, not confuse them about speaking properly.

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A recent study published in the journal Infancy found that babies’ ability to match speech to faces predicted their future language abilities. The study followed 103 children from age three months to ...

Experts say parentese strengthens babies’ speech, bonding and language development Many parents have heard the warning: do not use baby talk with babies and toddlers. Caregivers are often encouraged ...

The world changed for all of us when we were suddenly plunged into a pandemic in 2020. COVID sent us into a series of lockdowns in a bid to control the spread of the virus until a vaccine could be ...

Parents have been singing lullabies to their children for thousands of years, but emerging research suggests that music does far more than simply calm a restless infant. Dutch scientists have ...

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

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emphasizing the sounds of certain words to young children can help them retain language, not ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Karen Stollznow, University of Colorado Boulder; Griffith University (THE CONVERSATION ...