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 ...

A study published in the journal PNAS highlights the impact of overhearing-based learning on language development in infants who are rarely spoken to directly. Tseltal mother carrying a nine-month-old ...

During the randomized study, parents/guardians were given a set of 20 children's books specifically chosen to support early language development and interaction with print media. Enrolled families ...

Roughly one in ten 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 ...

Make your little munchkin a bookworm: Reading books every day can improve language development in infants 12 months and younger. Parental reading in the first year of life can improve early speech and ...

Studies of nine-month-olds found that those most exposed to small words ending in "y" sounds - such as mummy, developed larger vocabularies. The same was also true of babies that heard words with ...