University of Waterloo provides funding as a founding partner of The Conversation CA. University of Waterloo provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. When you consider how children ...

The average toddler learns eight words every day in an explosive period of development that some researchers have described as a "word spurt." Yet it's not just exposure to words, but the frequency of ...

Everyone is glued to some sort of media these days, but for young kids, that screen time could delay or limit their language skills, a new research review suggests. "Our findings are really consistent ...

While young children have a unique instinct to learn a new language intuitively, toddlers do not learn very well when put in front of a computer or saddled to an audiotape of foreign phrases.

Children develop at their own rate, but your toddler may have a speech delay if they aren’t hitting certain developmental milestones. Every child develops at their own speed, and some focus on ...

New research suggests prodigious pups that already have large vocabularies can learn new words by listening in on their ...

Post by Izzy Ford, Jenna Leadbeater, and Dr. Roberta Michnick Golinkoff Here come the holidays, and the toy industry is revving up with AI chatbots built into stuffed animals and mini robots. These ...

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Children who grow up speaking two languages develop strengths that shape the way they learn and connect with others. Bilingualism is often seen only as a practical skill for communication, but ...