Maybe you’ve noticed it at a recent playdate: while other little ones are chattering away, your sweet babe is quieter, using fewer words, or communicating differently. Comparison and panic can creep ...

A little girl in a pair of pale pink corduroy dungarees at a London play centre is trying valiantly to get her mother to read her The Tiger Who Came to Tea. First, she tugs at her sleeve to no ...

Are you looking for easy and fun ways to help encourage your toddler's speech development? If so, you come to the right place ...

Children develop at different rates and in different ways, especially when it comes to speech and language development. For many children, slight delays in mastering language are normal and resolve ...

The moment your baby utters those first magical words is a milestone every parent eagerly awaits. But what happens when those words don’t come on schedule? Or when your toddler’s vocabulary grows at a ...

One of the joys of parenthood is watching your child reach milestones as they grow to become their own person: first laugh, first roll over, first steps. But one milestone parents really look forward ...

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University hope an AI-driven speech reconstruction tool can bridge the gap between a growing ...

Add delayed first words to the list of the Covid-19 pandemic’s lingering effects. Babies and toddlers are being diagnosed with speech and language delays in greater numbers, part of developmental and ...

Children’s speech presents unique challenges for ASR systems. Their smaller, growing vocal tracts lead to greater acoustic variability. On top of that, kids are still learning how to speak, making ...

Toddlers sit at a crossroads of rapid brain growth and limited language. They are discovering that they are separate people ...

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. My son Grayson was about two and a half years old when his preschool teacher called me. A child ...