Home visitor programs are run by local governments and nonprofit organizations and are funded largely through a federal ...

The programs are an outgrowth of the awareness of the importance of the first 3 years in a child’s intellectual, emotional ...

Language development in children is a complex interplay of genetic, neurological and environmental factors. In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the spectrum of language abilities, ...

Too much screen time could be affecting your child's language development. The American Academy for Pediatrics advises children be kept away from screens until they are 18 months old and should only ...

At my town’s public library, one wall of the children’s section displays posters declaring, “Babies need words every day,” encouraging me to sing, talk, and read with my child. On the radio recently, ...

A new study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders suggests that the ability to comprehend complex ...

For 20 years, a chasm of words has yawned between the children of college-educated professionals and those of high school dropouts, quantifying the academic disadvantage faced by the latter group long ...

Terry Tivnan, who spent nearly three decades as an Ed School lecturer, recalled Cazden encouraging him to teach a course on ...

An AI model using deep transfer learning—the most advanced form of machine learning—has predicted spoken language outcomes ...