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Baby talk” gets a bad rap, but it’s actually one of the most powerful tools for helping children learn language.

When children learn to talk, their ability to pronounce different sounds develops gradually. We asked speech and language ...

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In honor of World Book Day April 23, Aflac explores the benefits of reading aloud to children.

Talking to your baby or toddler shapes the structure of their brain, my colleagues and I have discovered. For the study, which is published in The Journal of Neuroscience, we enrolled 163 children at ...

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Propheter said the data will help the department understand better how many preschools are offering bilingual programs, and how languages other than English are being used in the classroom. In ...