When you consider how children learn words, you might think of this kind of scenario: an adult points to an object (for example, a dog), clearly says a word in isolation (dog!), and the child ...

More than 40 years ago, psychologists found signs that children living in noisy places were having trouble learning to read. They suspected that the noise interfered with language learning. Now, their ...

Getting sick of scraping pureed sweet potato out of the crevices of your toddler's high chair? Here's a little bit of motivation: Kids who get messy in their high chairs learn certain types of words ...

Parents, let your children get messy in the high chair: They learn better that way. That's according to a new study which concludes that a 16-month-old's setting and degree of interaction enhances his ...

Toddlers make their fair share of noise. But they also have a lot of noise to contend with — a television blaring, siblings squabbling, a car radio blasting, grownups talking. Amid all that clatter, ...

Toddlers learn their first words better from people than from Teletubbies, according to new research. Children younger than 22 months may be entertained, but they do not learn words from the ...

Preschoolers read a lot into writing before they know how to read. Youngsters befuddled by printed squiggles on the pages of a storybook nonetheless understand that a written word, unlike a drawing, ...

More than 40 years ago, psychologists found signs that children living in noisy places were having trouble learning to read. They suspected that the noise interfered with language learning. Now, their ...