Developmental language disorder (DLD) affects around two children in each class. It hinders their acquisition and use of language, even if they do not have other auditory, intellectual or neurological ...

CALD children in Australia face greater early school challenges, especially in communication and language skills.

Children entering school from culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) families are more likely to face developmental ...

Babies born too soon seem to have stronger connections in one of the major brain areas that supports language processing if ...

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...

Developmental language disorder (DLD) affects approximately one in 14 kindergarten-age children, according to the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders. This is a statistic ...

Children talking back is a normal developmental stage. It signals growing independence and better social reasoning. Research ...

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to ...

A neuroscientist and speech pathologist, led a study that uncovered how neural networks in infants influence their language learning skills in early childhood. From inside the womb and as soon as they ...