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 therapists, Janet Cooper and Monal Gajjar, to answer some of your most common ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ear infections are a common childhood experience, but a new study suggests parents should take these infections seriously to preserve their children's language development. That's because each ear ...

Adults need to guide kids’ interactions with AI, and teach the difference between talking to a machine and a human.

Since their launch in 2007, smartphones have become a pervasive part of everyday life that influences interactions between parents and children. Research indicates that while parents typically use ...