This common condition affects children’s spoken language development, but similarity to other disorders makes it hard to detect.

A new study that analyzed many previous studies has confirmed that children with developmental language disorders have abnormalities in specific parts of their brains. This discovery has the ...

Mary S. Riley, James G. Greeno, Developmental Analysis of Understanding Language about Quantities and of Solving Problems, Cognition and Instruction, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1988), pp. 49-101 ...

Specific language impairment (SLI) is a condition in which a child's language development is deficient despite showing normal development in all other areas. New research, published in Current ...

However, Murphy said masks are a sliver of the overall bigger problem. The speech language pathologist adds that social distancing is also a factor.

Ear infections are a common childhood experience, but a new study suggests parents should take these infections seriously to preserve their children's language development.

Increasingly, research finds that exposure to anesthesia in early childhood may have long-term effects on kids’ brain development. One 2011 study linked exposure to anesthesia to learning ...

The Common Core State Standards' focus on persuasion, analysis, and other discourse skills is accelerating the push to teach English-language learners to master "academic" English.

There are common myths about speech problems in children that lead two-thirds of parents concerned about a possible speech impairment to ignore the problem. from www.shutterstock.com.au ...