What is cognitive development? Expert Dr Samantha Durrant answers parents' questions around this tricky subject, and how it ...

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

Language development in autistic children is far from uniform: some progress without notable difficulty, while others show ...

Cognitive and computer scientists at the University of Toronto, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies have found child language development and the ...

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 ...

Speech and language development is kind of one of those most important parts of early childhood growth, and if there are ...

From a baby's first words to a child's emotional development and family relationships, researchers are examining how fathers ...

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 ...

Parents want to support their child's development, but many aren't sure what works. Here are five common reading myths and what research tells us instead.