Speech and music are the dominant elements of an infant's auditory environment. While past research has shown that speech plays a critical role in children's language development, less is known about ...

In the first large-scale observation with human coding of infant vocalizations using all-day home recordings, babies of all ages from birth up to a year old squealed and growled in significant cluster ...

Research suggests that phone use may have an effect on children's speech input and language development. However, most of the prior work in this area examines parents and children in controlled ...

The soft, gentle murmurs of a baby's first expressions, like little whispers of joy and wonder to doting parents, are actually signs that the baby's heart is working rhythmically in concert with ...

Braces and aligners have long been framed as tools for straighter smiles, but a new narrative review argues that the timing ...

What’s behind a spike in childhood speech development delays across the U.S. Since the COVID pandemic, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of young children who are slow to develop ...

Among infants with isolated cleft palate, whether primary surgery at 6 months of age is more beneficial than surgery at 12 months of age with respect to speech outcomes, hearing outcomes, dentofacial ...

A new study has compared the amount of music and speech that children hear in infancy. Results showed that infants hear more spoken language than music, with the gap widening as the babies get older.