The study is part of the LEINIKKI project, which focus is on the language development of preschool-aged children in Finnish-speaking families, as well as on the effect of background factors on the ...

Study of cognitive development in deaf children revisits longstanding debate ... it may be too late for that child to master sign language." On Saturday, Feb. 13, ...

Helping children learn language, develop cognitive skills Date: June 16, 2014 Source: University of Chicago Summary: Examining factors such as how much children gesture at an early age may make it ...

As they grow, babies use lipreading as part of speech and language development. This means that for infants who are in daycare settings, and therefore constantly seeing masked caregivers, "there ...

CHILDREN’S speech and language skills have been hit due to Covid-19, with the lack of face to face support cited as a particular problem.

Fernald said by some measures, 5-year-olds from low-income families can lag two years behind their peers in tests of language development. Brain scans support the link, said Dr. Kimberly Noble of ...

Language difficulties in children—and their severity—should be identified early. The right training and support can then be put into place and contribute to better language development.

Metacognition, or the awareness of your own thinking and thought processes, is recognized as an important step in cognitive development—for example, when a child reads a page of a book, thinks ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has spurred study into the effects of masks on speech and language development in children, but the results aren't yet clear.

For example, the word “mouse ... and in child language development during the first few months and years of life,” says last author Yang Xu, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science ...