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 ...

Nancy Brady has been gratified to see the tool she and colleagues pioneered over a decade ago to measure the growth of infants' pre-speech communication skills translated into several languages and ...

A team tested and validated elaborated language sampling (ELS) as a reliable set of procedures for collecting, measuring and analyzing the spoken language of youth with Down syndrome in a naturalistic ...

Language skills are essential to a child’s ability to communicate and develop. These skills enable children to engage with other people and learn from their surroundings and in the classroom. Language ...

Playing recordings of a mother’s voice to premature babies may help their brains mature faster, according to the first randomised-controlled trial of this simple intervention. This approach could ...

A new study provides evidence that gorilla communication is linked to the left hemisphere of the brain - just as it is in humans. A new University of Sussex study provides evidence that gorilla ...

The Jamaica Libraries and Information Network (JAMLIN) has launched a phased Jamaican Sign Language (JSL) training programme ...