What’s your baby thinking? An expert explains… - Most parents would love to know what their little one is trying to tell them ...

"Young children are ideal subjects because they are just starting to speak," says Amanda Seidl, who studies how children learn the grammatical and phonological structure of language in Purdue's Infant ...

Share the signs you’re teaching your child with their other caregivers so that everyone who’s around your baby can communicate effectively with them. And if it’s a caregiver who’s teaching the signs, ...

When we read, it’s very easy for us to tell individual words apart: In written language, spaces are used to separate words from one another. But this is not the case with spoken language – speech is a ...

Phonetic information -- the smallest sound elements of speech -- may not be the basis of language learning in babies as previously thought. Babies don't begin to process phonetic information reliably ...

Maternal speech to children has been shown to vary by age and language ability of the children. Previous studies have usually involved children over 1 year of age. In this study maternal speech to ...

Infants born deaf or hard of hearing show adverse changes in how their brains organize and specialize, but exposure to sound ...