Previous research shows that conversational turns (interactive conversations) between parents and children are important for a child’s long-term language development and academic achievement and that ...

Children develop at different rates and in different ways, especially when it comes to speech and language development. For many children, slight delays in mastering language are normal and resolve ...

Young children who hear more than one language spoken at home become better communicators, a new study from University of Chicago psychologists finds. Effective communication requires the ability to ...

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Normal and abnormal language development depends to a great degree on the nature of the infant-mother relationship. The author advances his concepts as well as those of others with respect to several ...

Young children who hear more than one language spoken at home become better communicators, a new study finds. Young children who hear more than one language spoken at home become better communicators, ...

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It must be difficult to face an abrupt shift in language when one is just learning to speak--so thought Rena Krakow, the mother of an adopted Chinese girl, and Jenny Roberts, the aunt of an adopted ...

Portrait of an adorable little boy wearing a suit and standing near a chalkboard with a colorful brain sketch. Concept of child's development A new study from The Society for Research in Child ...