This article asks the reader to look at language in a quite different way than it is usually viewed. Drawing on the ideas of Benjamin Whorf and others in linguistics, the article sets forth the ...

Language skills are essential to a child’s ability to communicate and develop. These skills enable children to engage with other people and learn from their surroundings and in the classroom. Language ...

Communicating with babies in infant-directed-speech is considered an essential prerequisite for successful language development of the little ones. Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Human ...

The “FG” Syndrome is an X-linked syndrome characterized by unusual facial features, cardiac defects, mental retardation and gastrointestinal anomalies. Agenesis of the corpus callosum has also been ...

Researchers found that when the adult talked and played socially with a 5-month-old baby, the baby's brain activity particularly increased in regions responsible for attention -- and the level of this ...