A study in the current issue of Early Childhood Research Quarterly says prekindergarten teachers are doing a good job overall in teaching early literacy skills, but should focus more on vocabulary ...

Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's ...

At 12 months old, your infant's ability to group objects according to the names associated with them -- as opposed to their appearance alone -- offers a glimpse into how his or her vocabulary will ...

Matching the sight and sound of speech — a face to a voice — in early infancy is an important foundation for later language development. This ability, known as intersensory processing, is an essential ...

Although babies typically start talking around 12 months of age, their brains actually begin processing certain aspects of language much earlier, so that by the time they start talking, babies ...

Listen to Lexicon Valley Episode No. 29: 30 Million By Four Advertisement Subscribe in iTunes ∙ RSS feed ∙ Download ∙ Play in another tab In 1995, researchers Betty Hart and Todd Risley published the ...

Taking cues Giving toddlers non-verbal cues about words can have a big impact on their vocabulary three years later, according to new research. The work, which was carried out by a research team from ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Children from low-socioeconomic status (SES) families, on average, arrive at school with smaller vocabularies than children from high-SES ...

Early language development is an important predictor of children’s later language, reading and learning skills. Moreover, language learning difficulties are related ...