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 ...

Talking to your baby may be the best thing you can do to foster language development, with one caveat-make sure your child is talking back to you. Whether it’s just the baby sound of “ga” or a ...

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While your infant is unlikely to speak intelligibly before their first birthday, it's never too soon to build the foundations for verbal development. And, the beauty is, it's as easy as talking to ...

Baby talk could play a key role in helping toddlers’ early language development, according to new research. Infant-directed ...

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 ...

Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of this ...