*A new study published in Developmental Science suggests prenatal brain growth may influence early childhood language ...

The ASU Child Language and Literacy Lab offers ongoing opportunities in the field of language development for both children in need of services and the developmental professionals who help them.

When children learn to talk, their ability to pronounce different sounds develops gradually. We asked speech and language ...

Researchers create a storybook generation system for personalized vocabulary learning. Professor Inseok Hwang from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, along with students Jungeun Lee, ...

Screens have become ubiquitous in our daily lives—which means they've also become part of children's lives too. So what effect does this have on children's developing brains, especially critical ...

Mothers tend to speak less to infants when they're on their smartphones, a new study finds. Moms talked 16% less to their babies when they were fiddling with their phone, researchers found. Shorter 1- ...

Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which is published in The Journal of Neuroscience, we enrolled 163 children at ...

The words children hear growing up can shape their confidence, emotional security, resilience, and long-term self-esteem in ...

Since their launch in 2007, smartphones have become a pervasive part of everyday life that influences interactions between parents and children. Research indicates that while parents typically use ...