Speech therapy sessions are designed to facilitate the development of foundational communication skills for ages 1-3.

Hummus. Chewbacca. Belly button. These are just a few of the thousands of words scientists painstakingly decoded from over 2,100 hours of recorded conversations to determine if the amount of language ...

Toddlers learn many of their early language skills through mimicry, copying what they hear. It should not surprise parents when a toddler calls them by their first name or a familiar nickname. If a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Judging by the intense conversation her little girl begins having with the empty air, however, it seems they might not have been ...

Talking to toddlers helps shape their developing brain, according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Researchers captured thousands of hours of language data from babies and toddlers ...

As parents, we all hope our teens will be healthy and happy. Our new research shows one way to help is to have positive conversations with children about everyday events as soon as they start to talk.

Toddlerhood is a big and beautiful period of self-discovery. Kids are picking up new cognitive and motor skills and learning language a mile a minute. But there are some behaviors in this age range ...

April is National Autism Awareness month, so there will be lots of information in the news about autism and autism spectrum disorder (ASD). One of the first signs of autism is late onset of talking.

Hummus. Chewbacca. Tofu. Belly button. These are just a few of the thousands of words scientists at Duke painstakingly decoded from over 2,000 hours of infants' daily lives. They recently used these ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Hummus. Chewbacca. Tofu. Belly button. These are just a few of the thousands of words scientists at Duke painstakingly decoded from over 2,000 hours of infants’ daily lives. They ...