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Baby talk” gets a bad rap, but it’s actually one of the most powerful tools for helping children learn language.

When children learn to talk, their ability to pronounce different sounds develops gradually. We asked speech and language ...

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Chronic ear infections could delay a child’s language development, new research suggests. University of Florida researchers launched a study about how the common childhood infection could impact ...

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

Social interactions in the first months of life are fundamental for babies to learn how to communicate and develop their language skills. Physical contact, touch, smiling and our first face-to-face ...

In honor of World Book Day April 23, Aflac explores the benefits of reading aloud to children.

Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which is published in The Journal of Neuroscience, we enrolled 163 children at ...