During the toddler years, the brain develops very quickly, and play helps stimulate brain growth. Activities like building blocks, puzzles, drawing, and pretend play help toddlers think, imagine, and ...

Nineteen-month-old toddlers already use natural logical thinking, even before they learn to speak, to deal with uncertainties about the world. This natural logic contributes to their learning process, ...

Exaggerating phrases and talking in a sing-song way can actually help, not make it harder, for young children to master ...

Children with developmental language disorder (DLD) can be difficult to diagnose, despite the condition being more prevalent than autism spectrum disorder, representing roughly 7.5% of 5-year-olds in ...

Very young children learn words at a tremendous rate. Now researchers have seen how specific brain regions activate as two-year-olds remember newly learned words -- while the children were sleeping.