Aims: This study aims to explore the role of biological and enviromental factors as predictors of the early comunicative and language development, comparing 12 Italian preterm infants without central ...

Preterm babies perform as well as their full-term counterparts in a developmental task linking language and cognition, a new study has found. The study, the first of its kind with preterm infants, ...

Individual differences in early language development, and in later language functioning, are associated with changes in the anatomy of the brain in autism. A new study has found that a common ...

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...

How does speech from other children influence an infant’s ability to learn language? Federica Bulgarelli, assistant professor in the departments of Learning and Instruction and Psychology, has been ...

(Medical Xpress) -- A new assessment tool will help prevent multilingual children being wrongly diagnosed with speech and language problems. Dr. Carolyn Letts, Newcastle University, has just finished ...

The ability to learn a new language is determined by the onset of language experience during early brain development – regardless of the specific form of the language experience. This is the finding ...

Language acquisition in early childhood represents a fundamental aspect of human cognitive development, where children rapidly transform acoustic signals into a rich, structured linguistic system.

Koerner encourages parents to use “parallel talk” — describing what a child is doing — and “self-talk,” or narrating their ...

First study to tease apart role of infants' early experience and maturational status in establishing the earliest link between language and cognition Preterm infants are maturationally on par with ...