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

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 ...

Language and conversation is our lifeblood. And that’s even true, scientists say, if one of the “speakers” may not have fully developed language skills. Led by Dr. Betty Vohr, a professor of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Tiktok / @jatziri.veliz Across social media, babies are doing something that has viewers completely mesmerized—laughing ...

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

Researchers made a surprising discovery about infant language development. Babies recognize familiar voices and languages before they are even born Researchers stress that this discovery does not mean ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Nearly two million children in the UK are affected by early language delays. New research will examine whether noise in nurseries is a hidden factor. An estimated 1.9 million children across the UK ...