While parentese is important for all babies because it helps build the baby's brain for listening, language, and understanding, it's even more important for children who are deaf or hard of hearing.

You might have seen those heartwarming and often funny viral videos where parents or carers engage in long “talks” with young babies about this and that – usually just fun chit chat of no great ...

Babies don't learn to talk just from hearing sounds. New research suggests they're lip-readers too. It happens during that magical stage when a baby's babbling gradually changes from gibberish into ...

As a parent, you help your children learn skills to walk, talk, eat, and learn. As children grow into tweens, they need new skills to navigate feelings and emotions – and you’re the perfect person to ...

June 12 -- — Babies learn to speak the same way that some birds learn how to sing. Infants don't learn to speak just by imitating the sounds of older humans in their midst, according to new research.

You've heard it. You've probably done it. We're talking baby talk. And it turns out, the features of baby talk — softer tone, higher pitch, almost unintelligible vocabulary — are global. Researchers ...

The Notre Dame Robinson Community Learning Center has been awarded a $500,000 grant to expand their Talk to Your Baby Program. The Robinson Center was selected as the recipient of the Early Years ...

"Baby talk" is one of those human behaviors that may seem a bit silly on the surface but serves an important purpose: It helps infants develop their speech. Researchers have recently discovered that ...

Jane Herbert has received funding for these projects: 2012-15: Does promoting parents’ engagement with their infants benefit language development?” Nuffield Foundation (approx. £200,000). D Matthews ...