Typically, about 1 in 6 children experience a developmental delay. But children born during the pandemic, a 2022 study has found, have nearly twice the risk of developmental delays in communication ...

The moment your baby utters those first magical words is a milestone every parent eagerly awaits. But what happens when those words don’t come on schedule? Or when your toddler’s vocabulary grows at a ...

Wambui Mbugua during the interview at Spice FM. Parents have been cautioned about the overuse of pacifiers and bottle feeders on their children. According to Wambui Mbugua, a speech therapist, they ...

Research suggests that phone use may have an effect on children's speech input and language development. However, most of the prior work in this area examines parents and children in controlled ...

Wambui Mbugua during the interview at Spice FM. Parents have been cautioned about the overuse of pacifiers and bottle feeders on their children.

Twins produce fewer gestures and gesture to fewer objects than other children. Language use also lags for twins, and language -- but not gesture -- is also affected by sex, with girls performing ...

Gestures--such as pointing or waving--go hand in hand with a child's first words, and twins lag behind single children in producing and using those gestures, two studies from Georgia State University ...

Ello aims to eradicate childhood illiteracy by leveraging artificial intelligence and child speech recognition technology. The startup announced today that it secured $15 million in Series A financing ...

Alex Hodges spends significant time every day with her infant daughter doing what kids these days might call "yapping." "Maria can't watch you today because one of her kids is sick," Hodges begins one ...

In February 2022, the CDC expanded its list of developmental milestone standards by adding checklists for children 15 months and 30 months of age. The language/communication portion of the checklist ...