The ASU Child Language and Literacy Lab offers ongoing opportunities in the field of language development for both children in need of services and the developmental professionals who help them.

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

Early childhood educators speak differently to boys compared to girls in toddler classrooms, University of Queensland ...

Many parents have heard the warning: Don’t use baby talk with babies and toddlers. Instead, caregivers are often encouraged to speak properly and use adultlike language, out of concern that simplified ...

Should you speak more than one language in the house? Do bilingual babies talk later? Speech and language therapist Monal Gajjar talks about bringing up children in bilingual households.

Speech therapy experts share five home-based strategies for building toddler language skills during daily routines like ...

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 ...

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 ...