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

Dr. Theresa Horton says laughing helps babies build social, emotional and language skills while strengthening bonds with ...

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

Fathers, as well as mothers, are being encouraged to read to their kids after new research has shown the impact dads can have for their child's language development. The latest research from the ...

Early parent–child interactions lay the groundwork for communication, social and cognitive development. Yet many of the ...

A new study finds the value of using 'parentese,' an exaggerated speaking style that conveys total engagement with a child. Used in virtually all of the world's languages, parentese is a speaking ...

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 ...

Cognitive scientists have now found that conversation between an adult and a child appears to change the child's brain, and that this back-and-forth conversation is actually more critical to language ...