A child’s first word can be a meaningful milestone for parents. But sometimes, children don’t have to say anything at all to teach us about how they develop their earliest vocabularies. Arielle ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – A 5-year-old wearing headphones is instructed by a prerecorded voice to repeat what they hear word for word. Such a test, called sentence recall, measures auditory processing, memory ...

New screening tools in child health care are effective in identifying early language and communication difficulties in children. This is shown by two studies based on more than 6,000 children. New ...

As director of the Language, Education and Reading Neuroscience Lab, communication sciences and disorders Prof. Elizabeth Norton’s work bridges neuroscience and education to better understand language ...

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is a problem involving the acquisition and development of language, and children with it experience difficulties speaking, communicating, understanding and ...

Testing among young children has expanded significantly in recent years, but there is a lack of studies to assess their ...

The study has shown that two communication cues—intonation and gestures—are also helpful for children with typical language development, but "it's especially useful to apply them in school ...

Linguistic symptoms and an onset early in life: Disorders to which this applies are frequently associated with left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness. The fact that left-handedness resp.