My four-year-old learned three new words recently: derecho, generator, and cicada. She is old enough and talks so much that I no longer notice every one of her new words like I did during her toddler ...

Word learning in children represents a fundamental aspect of cognitive development and language acquisition. This area of research explores how young learners overcome the ambiguous nature of their ...

Parents can fight this effect by using screens to communicate with loved ones, or watching videos or shows side-by-side with their kids, SMU professor Sarah Kucker said.

For Jessica Gustafson, Abilities First in Middletown has been invaluable to her son’s development. Her son, Oliver, 7, received an autism diagnosis around four years ago, and she enrolled Oliver in ...

In a survey of over 460 caregivers of children ages 17-30 months about word use and video consumption, Southern Methodist ...

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) can be difficult to diagnose, despite the condition being more prevalent than autism spectrum disorder, representing roughly 7.5% of 5-year-olds in ...