When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. When it comes to learning words, a hands-off approach may be in order. New research suggests ...

Toddlers may have a harder time picking up new words if there's background noise around them, like sounds from a TV or a cellphone conversation, a new study suggests. In the study, children ages 22 ...

Toddlers at 15 months begin to learn new words for objects that they’ve never seen, suggests a study. The findings provide evidence that infants can learn words from language alone, say American ...

A new study of toddlers has found that the presence of background noise in home or at school can make learning new words more difficult for children. The environments children are in, including how ...

New research published in the journal Developmental Science provides evidence that the amount of time toddlers spend watching ...

Toddlers have spent the majority of their lives listening to words and finding optimal ways to communicate their wants and needs. Toddlers quickly discover the power of language, from their first ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON -- It's called the "word spurt," that magical time when a toddler's vocabulary explodes, seemingly overnight. New research offers a decidedly un-magical explanation: Babies start really ...

Like every other person who carries around a smartphone, I take a lot of pictures, mostly of my kids. I thought I was bad with a few thousand snaps filling my phone’s memory. But then I talked to MIT ...