How Parent-Infant Interactions Boost Language Skills
In Infants’ Brain Responses to Social Interaction Predict Future Language Growth, a group of experts led by Patricia Kuhl at … Read more
Basic Environmental Supports for Positive Brain and Cognitive Development in the First Year of Life
Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics in 2024, Basic Environmental Supports for Positive Brain and … Read more
Babies Learn Language Best . . .
Research from the University of Cambridge was recently written up on NeuroscienceNews.com, an “independent science news website focusing mainly on … Read more
Tracing the Roots of Language and Literacy
In Tracing the Roots of Language and Literacy, Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers have reported that “the relationship between … Read more
Early Screen Time Associated with Delays at Ages Two and Four
Last year the Journal of the American Medical Association: Pediatrics (JAMA:P) published a study of over 7000 young children in … Read more
Babies and Screen Time: New Research Calls for Caution
An important article on the effects of screen time on young children was published in the Journal of the American … Read more
Research Article: Young Children and Infants Read to By Parents Have Stronger Vocabulary Skills
For several years now, awareness campaigns like First 5’s “Talk. Read. Sing.” have emphasized the importance of reading to young … Read more
State of Babies Yearbook 2023
Each year, Zero to Three publishes the State of Babies Yearbook which includes a wide variety of data on the … Read more
Research Findings: “Bilingual babies listen to languages — and don’t get confused”
In 2017, a group of international researchers discovered that bilingual babies as young as 20 months of age can understand … Read more
Babies Know When You Imitate Them – And Like It
In 2020, researchers from Lund University in Sweden published findings from their investigation of six-month-olds in their homes and how … Read more
Benefits of Sign Language for All Infants
A 2021 study from Northwestern University revealed an important connection between American Sign Language (ASL) and cognitive processes. Hearing infants … Read more