The temporary, repeated hearing loss caused by chronic ear infections can affect language skills years later. Ear infections are a common childhood experience, but a new study suggests parents should ...

A new Healthy Living Together session explores how daily interactions help build strong language skills in young children.

Cognitive scientists have now found that conversation between an adult and a child appears to change the child's brain, and that this back-and-forth conversation is actually more critical to language ...

Here's why solo screen time can have a negative effect on kids who are experiencing language delays -- and how you can help ...

Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which is published in The Journal of Neuroscience, we enrolled 163 children at ...

It is so exciting when your newborn begins making little baby noises. Every coo gets chronicled. Every giggle seems like a gift. I remember when Killian started babbling, making those first precious ...

A study examines how parental speaking style influences language development in infants. Across cultures, adults often use "parentese," a speaking style characterized by exaggerated intonation, high ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Too much screen time could be affecting your child's language development. The American Academy for Pediatrics advises ...

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Devices including TVs, smartphones and tablets could change the brain structures of young children, according to ...