New research from Northwestern University shows 15-month-old infants can learn words for objects they've never seen. This breakthrough challenges previous assumptions about early language learning ...

For decades, most students who attended Jericho Hill and later BC School for the Deaf came from Deaf Children’s Society. Its ...

In a stunning move, Nigeria’s National Council on Education has effectively silenced the voices of its own people by ...

SpeechLP, an evidence-based AI speech therapy app with articulation games for kids, will officially launch at this year's ...

Infants born deaf or hard of hearing show adverse changes in how their brains organize and specialize, but exposure to sound ...

Also in this roundup: a “highly prized” medal for a polymer scientist, UVA Health Children’s tops the state again, and we correct an omission.

Infants born deaf or hard of hearing show adverse changes in how their brains organize and specialize, but exposure to sound and language may help them develop more normally, according to new research ...

Nancy Brady has been gratified to see the tool she and colleagues pioneered over a decade ago to measure the growth of infants' pre-speech communication skills translated into several languages and ...

Research tool measuring how infants build communication skills into spoken language used for first time to study children ...

A new NIH grant will help researchers use eye-tracking to understand how deaf people process vocabulary and develop reading ...

Simple information already gathered during routine well-baby visits could help clinicians spot which infants are at risk for persistent developmental delays, without the need for complex testing.

In the field of paediatrics, the concept of normal (ie, typical)—in contrast to different, special, deviant, delayed, or ...