In the first months of life, when babies begin to distinguish sounds that make up language from all the other sounds in the world, they can be trained to more effectively recognize which sounds “might ...

Post written by François Grosjean. In an earlier post on language forgetting, I mentioned a little American boy, Stephen, who had acquired Garo in India during his first years of life but who had ...

A baby’s first word is typically a momentous occasion, witnessed with proud smiles and teary eyes. But what of the babbling that comes before? These nonsensical noises may also be a major milestone on ...

Children develop at their own rate, but your toddler may have a speech delay if they aren’t hitting certain developmental milestones. Every child develops at their own speed, and some focus on ...

When John Lee Clark was five years old, in 1983, he entered a small Deaf program within a public school near his home in Eden Prairie, Minnesota. Clark was a dreamy kid who dressed in tucked-in button ...

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