The AI program was way less cute than a real baby. But like a baby, it learned its first words by seeing objects and hearing words. Some ideas of language learning hold that humans are born with ...

My four-year-old learned three new words recently: derecho, generator, and cicada. She is old enough and talks so much that I no longer notice every one of her new words like I did during her toddler ...

A new study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who ...

New research from Northwestern University shows 15-month-old infants can learn words for objects they've never seen. This ...

Parenting a nonverbal child is a challenge. […] The post “When You Don’t Know How To React To Your Nonverbal Daughter’s First ...

For Jessica Gustafson, Abilities First in Middletown has been invaluable to her son’s development. Her son, Oliver, 7, received an autism diagnosis around four years ago, and she enrolled Oliver in ...

Dads will just have to wait. While children’s first words are often “mama,” across different languages and cultures, kids’ primary words are generally “this” and “that” before they utter “dad.” These ...