A new study suggests that exposure to lead may have limited brain and language development in Neanderthals, but a gene ...

Delays in language and reading development are common, and learning disorders such as dyslexia can significantly affect a ...

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to ...

Hearing a mother’s voice helps premature babies’ brains grow faster and develop stronger language connections.

A recent study revealed that a mother's voice strengthens a baby’s speech development.To note, fetuses start hearing around ...

Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of this ...

Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of NPR's Short Wave talk about the brain benefits of quitting cigarettes, language development in premature babies, and a mysterious imprint in a Chicago sidewalk.

Given the complexity of the process, it’s astonishing any human has ever mastered the ability to read. Although written language is ancient — we’ve been at it for roughly 5,000 years — it’s not an ...

HELPING YOUR CHILD UNDERSTAND LANGUAGE. A LOCAL HOSPITAL IS ONE OF THE ONLY HOSPITALS IN SOUTH FLORIDA OFFERING A PROGRAM TO NEW PARENTS. AFTER HAVING A BABY. ON THE IMPORTANCE OF BRAIN DEVELOPMENT ...