Matching the sight and sound of speech — a face to a voice — in early infancy is an important foundation for later language development. This ability, known as intersensory processing, is an essential ...

Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's ...

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in different languages. However, a new paper from the Concordia Infant Research Lab ...

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 ...

A quick Google search of “technology speech delay” yields countless news articles about how technology use by young children contributes to speech delays. A recent study of almost 900 children showed ...

Researchers create a storybook generation system for personalized vocabulary learning. Professor Inseok Hwang from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, along with students Jungeun Lee, ...

Anyone who’s witnessed a toddler meltdown knows that youngsters’ communication skills are a work in progress. From the moment they’re born, infants are surrounded by language, but it takes time and ...

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, ...

Margaret Kristin Merga receives funding from the Copyright Agency Cultural Fund and the Collier Foundation. She has also received funding from the Ian Potter ...