Many parents show their children smartphones or tablets while preparing meals or when out and about. While convenient, some ...

Overhearable speech (speech that may occur when caregivers are talking to each other in a child's presence) constitutes more ...

A recent study published in the journal Infancy found that babies’ ability to match speech to faces predicted their future language abilities. The study followed 103 children from age three months to ...

We have been exploring the enigma of language—its power in helping us understand one another, and the mischief caused by misinterpretations. Consider again this excerpt of a letter Wilbur Wright sent ...

Background Speech and language disorders are among the most common developmental concerns in early childhood, yet there is limited consensus in pediatrics regarding how accurately parent-report ...

Growing up amid a swirl of Russian, Hebrew, and English fed Elika Bergelson’s passion for language development. Her parents had emigrated in the 1970s from the Soviet Union to Israel, where they began ...

In this interactive workshop we will think together about what it means to do research that engages with communities outside the university, particularly communities that have been historically ...

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