Parents can fight this effect by using screens to communicate with loved ones, or watching videos or shows side-by-side with their kids, SMU professor Sarah Kucker said.

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) can be difficult to diagnose, despite the condition being more prevalent than autism spectrum disorder, representing roughly 7.5% of 5-year-olds in ...

Parents have so much that they need to be responsible for these days. Where children often waited until kindergarten or first grade to learn their numbers, letters and colors, today’s children often ...

As ubiquitous as colored pencils and alphabet posters, lists of “sight words” have long been a fixture in kindergarten and 1st grade classrooms. These inventories identify some of the most commonly ...

Senior student Meredith Brinster?s original research suggests learning words by inference is more powerful for 3-year-olds than being told their meaning. Brinster showed the youngsters both familiar ...

Young children whose parents read them five books a day enter kindergarten having heard about 1.4 million more words than kids who were never read to, a new study found. This 'million word gap' could ...

As many educators and researchers will attest, there’s no exact science to choosing vocabulary words—no inherent reason the word “detest” is more important to teach than “despise,” or why “compassion” ...

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LOS ANGELES That's according to University of Iowa researchers, who conducted a study of 16 children 18 months old. The toddlers knew the names of about 17 objects, but those who played with different ...