Researchers found that a child's ability to self-regulate is a critical element in childhood language and literacy development, and that the earlier they can hone these skills, the faster language and ...

Hand-held screens might delay a child's ability to form words, based on new research being presented this week at the annual Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting in San Francisco. This preliminary ...

Language and literacy are intimately related. Language skills include listening, speaking, taking turns when engaging in conversation, communicating needs, describing things, having meaningful ...

Watching videos and TV negatively affects language development in toddlers. The corresponding study was published in Acta Paediatrica. While digital media may be useful for connecting with relatives ...

A new study from SMU psychologist Sarah Kucker and colleagues reveals that passive video use among toddlers can negatively affect language development, but their caregiver's motivations for exposing ...

Coding skills have long been associated with workforce readiness and the digital fluency that students will need to thrive in the modern workplace. But the benefits of coding also extend to more ...

Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), University of California, San Diego School of Medicine researchers say it may be possible to predict future language development outcomes in ...

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open explores how tablet use by toddlers with poor language development is influenced by interference with joint attention. In this process, two people focus ...

We believe that strong literacy skills—reading, writing, speaking, and listening—are necessities for all people and that all people can learn literacy skills. Thus, we choose to adopt a structured and ...