This post is part of our series on Digital Media and Children Under 3, published with collaboration from the journal, Infant Behavior and Development. The featured research appeared in a special issue ...

Newswise — DALLAS (SMU) – A new study from SMU psychologist Sarah Kucker and colleagues reveals that passive video use among toddlers can negatively affect language development, but their caregiver’s ...

What should you do if your child understands instructions such as “Come here” and “Bring this here” but does not actually ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tiktok/@savconsidine If you're a parent, you know that toddlers have a knack for soaking up everything around them—often to ...

Many parents show their children smartphones or tablets while preparing meals or when out and about. While convenient, some ...

The everyday moments parents spend reading books, solving puzzles and playing with their toddlers may do more than create ...

While this depends on your family, your child, and your situation, it's most likely that shelter-in-place will not significantly affect your child's language development. "Toddlers are hardwired to ...

A recent study published in the journal Infancy found that babies’ ability to match speech to faces predicted their future language abilities. The study followed 103 children from age three months to ...

As your toddler grows into childhood, language, speech and vocabulary blossoms with each passing day. Boys Town Pediatrics explains toddler language development and how parents can help expand ...

Overhearable speech (speech that may occur when caregivers are talking to each other in a child's presence) constitutes more than half of children's language exposure, but its role in language ...

A recent study published in JAMA Network Open explores how tablet use by toddlers with poor language development is influenced by interference with joint attention. In this process, two people focus ...