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Articles on Language development
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Kindergarten programming fulfils critical learning needs of the child.
Children with DLD show problems across all their languages and need specialist help.
New research shows caregivers don’t get advice on smartphone use, even though we know it can affect a baby’s feeding, language development and attachment.
By the time children start school ‘they have the rudiments of adult swearing’, including about 40 taboo words.
Here’s how to get babies and toddlers chatting.
A psycholinguist explains what’s really going on when people misspeak.
For humans, there is a link between the development of language and cognitive skills. Studying the same process in dogs can be used to determine their capabilities at the puppy stage.
Vocal imitation is a key part of how humans learn to speak. New research shows that bats babble to learn and use baby talk to teach, just like people do.
Plus, why sarcasm is so difficult for children to understand – and how to help them. Listen to episode 23 of The Conversation Weekly podcast.
Children who started school in autumn 2020 needed more support than in previous years.
Teaching deaf babies sign language improves the success of cochlear implants – and also safeguards their long-term physical and mental health.
With caregivers’ faces covered, infants and young children will miss out on all the visual cues they’d normally get during stages of rapid developmental growth.
New research shows that babies around the world love baby talk — and when adults baby talk to them it is good for their language development.
Unparalleled elegance and versatility in the design of the human hand, and the hand’s connections with the brain, lie behind how humans learn to read and write.
Here’s what parents should look out for if they are worried about their baby’s language development.
Discovering that orangutans can communicate about things that happened in the past provides new clues to how human language evolved.
Upsy Daisy and the Tombliboos are finely tuned in to the developing minds of toddlers.
New research shows that children who are kind, supportive and understanding influence their siblings to act and behave in similar ways.
Using simple strategies, parents and teachers can help stimulate linguistic and other cognitive development in children.
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Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education and Director of the Atkinson Centre, University of Toronto
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Professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
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Professor in Psychology, University of Florida
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Professor of Linguistics, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Education, Furman University
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Professor of Speech Pathology, Southern Cross University
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Professor of Linguistics, University of York
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Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool
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Associate professor Allied Health, Western Sydney University
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Senior Research Manager in the Education and Skills Development Research Programme, Human Sciences Research Council
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Professor of Applied Psychology and Human Development, University of Toronto
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Psychology, University of Toronto
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Professor of Language and Communication Science, City St George's, University of London
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Professor of Language and Literacy Education, Georgia State University
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Director, Office of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, University of Pittsburgh