A child’s first word can be a meaningful milestone for parents. But sometimes, children don’t have to say anything at all to teach us about how they develop their earliest vocabularies. Arielle ...

A research team in Montreal has found that newborns who had heard short stories in foreign languages while in the womb ...

Developmental language disorder (DLD) affects around two children in each class. It hinders their acquisition and use of language, even if they do not have other auditory, intellectual or neurological ...

A 5-year-old wearing headphones is instructed by a prerecorded voice to repeat what they hear word for word. Such a test, called sentence recall, measures auditory processing, memory and language ...

Roughly 8-9% of young children have a speech sound disorder, which results in difficulties producing speech sounds correctly and often has no known cause, according to the National Institute on ...

It is estimated that 15 percent of the U.S. population has some kind of learning disability. Often symptoms show up early and are picked up by a parent or physician. However there can be issues that ...