Research shows children with a higher screen time of around five hours a day could learn "significantly" fewer words than ...

Watching videos and TV negatively affects language development in toddlers. The corresponding study was published in Acta Paediatrica. While digital media may be useful for connecting with relatives ...

Screens today have gone from being helpful tools to something young children depend on too much. Doctors and child experts ...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - 98 percent of Americans own a smartphone, according to the Pew Research Center. With technology’s high prevalence in everyday life, it’s nearly impossible to prevent young ...

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in different languages. However, a new paper from the Concordia Infant Research Lab ...

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open explores how tablet use by toddlers with poor language development is influenced by interference with joint attention. In this process, two people focus ...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers say it may be possible to predict future language development outcomes in ...

Amid the stress and disruption of the pandemic, parents and caregivers have had less time and energy to engage their babies and toddlers in conversation—and the lack of talk already shows in their ...

LOS ANGELES - A recent study from the Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine has found that daily reading can improve language development in infants 12 months and younger. The study ...

Baby talk could play a key role in helping toddlers’ early language development, according to new research. Infant-directed ...