A study reveals that great apes communicate very little with their young, suggesting that ‘baby talk’ is unique to the human ...

Experts share whether talking like an adult or using "baby talk" or child-directed speech is more helpful when talking to ...

A research team from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Grenoble Alpes—Centre National de la ...

Discover the benefits of singing to babies and toddlers, including improved focus, communication, cognitive skills and emotional regulation. Learn how music supports development.

The study reported here aims at contributing to a deeper understanding of the educational possibilities offered by digital manipulatives in preschool contexts. It presents a study carried with a ...

From other perspectives of infant development, a study has established that the availability of fine- and gross-motor toys in the home environment represents the real use of these opportunities ...

A recent study of outcomes in infants and young deaf children with cochlear implants (implanted electronic hearing device), ...

In a nutshell Human infants receive up to 400 times more direct vocal communication than baby bonobos and nearly 70 times more than baby chimpanzees, suggesting our talkative parenting style is unique ...

Child-directed speech, or “baby talk,” plays a crucial role in language development and is a near-universal human behavior.

Scientists have done much more research on how human infants develop language than on how wild baby apes learn ... Human babies undergo a much longer period of brain development than baby apes do, ...

Possible reasons may include inconsistent measurement methods or inherent differences in the degree of hip development. The development of hip morphology is a dynamic process. While infancy is the ...

Introduction Uncertainty exists regarding the effects of iron supplementation during infancy on neurodevelopmental outcomes in the absence of anaemia. The aim of the study is to establish whether ...