It’s back-to-school time, and this past summer’s hot weather may have kept you cooped up inside with air conditioning more ...

Claire Smith from Speech and Language UK lets us know all about echolalia, where children repeat things they hear, and when ...

What is cognitive development? Expert Dr Samantha Durrant answers parents' questions around this tricky subject, and how it ...

When your child is unhappy because she or he can't connect with peers and make friends, don't wait; check out whether the cause is an inability to use nonverbal communication.

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

Fathers, as well as mothers, are being encouraged to read to their kids after new research has shown the impact dads can have for their child's language development.

Interventions enhanced the use of parentese and parent-child turn-taking in conversations, which increased language development by the time children were 18 months of age.

"To support bilingual development fully, children's exposure to each language should come from highly proficient speakers," Hoff said.

Young children from low-income homes whose mothers reported frequent use of toxic chemicals such as household cleaners were more likely to show delays in language development by age 2, a new study ...

When we think of child abuse, physical violence or emotional cruelty often comes to mind first. However, the most common form of maltreatment is actually much quieter: neglect.

The University of Nebraska at Kearney has appointed faculty members Paula Thompson and Philip Lai as the Cille and Ron ...