Parents often worry about their child's speech development. Experts clarify normal milestones, noting red flags like no ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (WHO13) – In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released updated guidelines that lower expectations for childhood development milestones. The CDC now says that ...

The moment your baby utters those first magical words is a milestone every parent eagerly awaits. But what happens when those words don’t come on schedule? Or when your toddler’s vocabulary grows at a ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. School has started in the United States amid the spread of the coronavirus delta variant, which has been rampant in some parts of the country and less so in ...

Expert advice from a speech therapist. Most children will begin talking around the age of one, but many of those words will be unintelligible to anyone except the people closest to them. Letters will ...

In February 2022, the CDC expanded its list of developmental milestone standards by adding checklists for children 15 months and 30 months of age. The language/communication portion of the checklist ...

Speech development in children is a complex, dynamic process marked by gradual refinement of the articulatory system and phonological competence. Central to this progression is coarticulation – the ...

When we read, it's very easy for us to tell individual words apart: In written language, spaces are used to separate words from one another. But this is not the case with spoken language – speech is a ...

Kathy Neumann was amazed the first time her son Ryan said the word, “mom.” He was five years old. “Before that, the only word he could say was, ‘dirt,’” Kathy, a Lacey resident, said. “It was one of ...