The size of a child’s vocabulary during the early years helps shape language skills later in life. Monkey Business Images/www.shutterstock.com If you want your child to have a rich and fulfilling life ...

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.

Once a week, children at First Academy Preschool in Leesburg, Florida, wear purple vests equipped with electronic devices ...

Exaggerating phrases and talking in a sing-song way can actually help, not make it harder, for young children to master ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Early Childhood Research, researchers investigated the benefits of early childhood education and care (ECEC), especially during the backdrop of the ...

Don’t overlook non-fiction While classic vocabulary books like “First 100 Words” are a great way to build vocabulary for budding minds, informational books and non-fiction books for children are a ...

One of the most intriguing questions relating to bilingualism is whether a language acquired in very early childhood, and then forgotten, is in fact still present. In the last 20 years, researchers ...

If you want your child to have a rich and fulfilling life, one of the best things you can do is help build your child’s vocabulary. Research shows strong language ability is associated with a number ...