More than 40 years ago, psychologists found signs that children living in noisy places were having trouble learning to read. They suspected that the noise interfered with language learning. Now, their ...

I’m sharing a quick and effective way I help my child learn new words at home. Whenever we discover a word she hasn't said ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When it comes to learning words, a hands-off approach may be in order. New research suggests ...

Stuck with a word on the tip of your tongue when talking to a toddler? Don't worry — a new study finds that hesitant speech may help the kid learn new vocabulary. Language disfluencies, or the "ums" ...

If you are a parent of a toddler, you are surely familiar with the feeling of hearing the same word over and over again in ...

Toddlers may have a harder time picking up new words if there's background noise around them, like sounds from a TV or a cellphone conversation, a new study suggests. In the study, children ages 22 ...

Parents, let your children get messy in the high chair: They learn better that way. That's according to a new study which concludes that a 16-month-old's setting and degree of interaction enhances his ...

Toddlers learn by doing. They poke, stack, bang, scribble, and ask why roughly 400 times a day. The best gifts lean into that ...

Quite a bit of research has begun to explore influences of sleep on cognitive processes. In adults, sleep has a huge influence on memory. Sleep speeds learning of new skills. It also helps to separate ...

Firefighters say the quick thinking of a toddler enabled his family to escape their El Sereno home when it caught fire Wednesday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Aiden may be just 3 years old, ...

More than 40 years ago, psychologists found signs that children living in noisy places were having trouble learning to read. They suspected that the noise interfered with language learning. Now, their ...