Many parents have heard the warning: Don’t use baby talk with babies and toddlers. Instead, caregivers are often encouraged to speak properly and use adultlike language, out of concern that simplified ...

A collection of films and articles all about the science behind your baby's early development and language learning.

Should you speak more than one language in the house? Do bilingual babies talk later? Speech and language therapist Monal Gajjar talks about bringing up children in bilingual households.

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 ...

As most parents of small children will reluctantly admit, nothing can occupy a child quite like television. Unfortunately, the scientific evidence suggests that using the boob tube as a babysitter has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emphasizing the sounds of certain words to young children can help them retain language, not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Emphasizing the sounds of certain words to young children can help them retain language, not confuse them about speaking properly.