When their newborn failed a hearing test, Quinn and Kai were distraught. Their pediatrician reassured them their baby was a candidate for a cochlear implant – an electronic device consisting of an ...

Baby talk isn't just cute—it could play a vital role in helping infants learn the sounds of their language, new research from ...

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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 ...

"Baby talk" may sound silly to adult ears, but this kind of parentese plays a crucial role in language development. And teaching parents how to speak to their infants could help boost their ability to ...

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 ...

It may seem surprising that your tiny infant, who seems to do little more than eat, sleep and poop is, in fact, learning every waking minute. Babies are built for learning, and everything they see, ...

(Reuters Health) - Baby talk known as "parentese" - characterized by high pitched, slow tempo speech - might actually make language learning easier for babies, a new study suggests. Parents' verbal ...

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 ...

The research reported here was supported by the Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education, through Grant R324A170086 to the University of Tennessee. The opinions expressed are ...