Your 20-month-old understands everything you say. He plays with his trucks and picks up his toys and fetches a diaper for his baby sister. But the only real words you ever hear come out of his mouth ...

The absolute best toys are the ones found in a speech therapist’s office. Ask any well-informed parent of a slow-to-talk baby. A baby’s communication struggles can be due to a variety of things – oral ...

Research has found that babies born during lockdown have been later to meet some language and communication milestones. During this time, babies met fewer new people and had fewer chances to socialize ...

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 ...

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 ...

“What colour is this?” or “What is this called?”- For many parents, these questions sound like perfectly normal attempts to help a child learn to talk. When a toddler points at a toy, a parent may ...

Toddlers ask endless questions. They point at birds, stare at ants, babble stories that make little sense and want to know why the moon follows the car. To tired parents, it can feel like background ...

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.