Support for language development in early childhood needs to start right at the beginning and in the home.
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2019
Articles relating to child language development from some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
Research is looking at what affects language development in children. Stress and adversity and key factors affect linguistic development. There is interesting research on the effects of bilingualism on child learning.
Language development in infancy is influenced differently by well-educated mothers and fathers, even though they read to their young toddlers (1 to 2 years old)…
Child & Family Blog EditorMay 2019
When a father supports a toddler’s autonomy, the child is likely to show better executive function at the age of five and so be readier…
Child & Family Blog EditorApril 2019
Parents boost language development in early childhood by naming what children see, touch, smell, taste and do as they play.
Professor Catherine S. Tamis-LeMondaFebruary 2019
Literally being able to see and hear the child’s perspective will revise our understanding of early childhood development.
Jack O'SullivanFebruary 2019
Support conversational capacities among parents on low incomes for language development in children that can cut poverty’s impact.
Jack O'SullivanFebruary 2019
An extra 5 hours/week spent in solo father-child learning activity makes as big a difference to child development as having a university-educated father.
Child & Family Blog EditorDecember 2018
Transforming supermarkets, bus stops and park benches for learning through play could cut educational gulfs between rich and poor.
Kathy Hirsh-Pasek and Roberta M. GolinkoffDecember 2018
