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 ...

Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of this ...

The programs are an outgrowth of the awareness of the importance of the first 3 years in a child’s intellectual, emotional ...

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 ...

Communicating with babies in infant-directed-speech is considered an essential prerequisite for successful language development of the little ones. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Wearing a tutu and a messy ponytail, CJ RainingBird, 4, sprawls out on her carpeted living room floor, scribbling on a notebook. She looks up eagerly after completing each pen ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's ...

When families have safe, stable housing, access to high-quality early development programs, and other supports that meet ...

An assistant teacher at an Educare center works with children in an infant classroom. A new study of Tulsa Educare found children who enroll as infants or toddlers perform better academically at the ...

HUNTSVILLE, Ala. (WAFF) - Providing support to infants with developmental disabilities is the mission of one state program. Alabama Early Intervention System helps parents as their child grows, learns ...

Roughly 1 in 10 babies worldwide is born before 37 weeks of pregnancy—a birth considered preterm. These infants are biologically less mature at birth and face a higher risk of developmental delays in ...