This article originally appeared on Undark. School has started in the United States amid the spread of the coronavirus delta variant, which has been rampant in some parts of the country and less so in ...

The moment your baby utters those first magical words is a milestone every parent eagerly awaits. But what happens when those words don’t come on schedule? Or when your toddler’s vocabulary grows at a ...

In February 2022, the CDC expanded its list of developmental milestone standards by adding checklists for children 15 months and 30 months of age. The language/communication portion of the checklist ...

Claims on social media that mask mandates have triggered an over 350% surge in childhood speech development delays are missing context. The claims stem from the referrals witnessed in one Florida ...

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 ...

Speech development in children is a complex, dynamic process marked by gradual refinement of the articulatory system and phonological competence. Central to this progression is coarticulation – the ...

One of the joys of parenthood is watching your child reach milestones as they grow to become their own person: first laugh, first roll over, first steps. But one milestone parents really look forward ...

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Children develop at different rates and in different ways, especially when it comes to speech and language development. For many children, slight delays in mastering language are normal and resolve ...

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. My son Grayson was about two and a half years old when his preschool teacher called me. A child ...

Since the COVID pandemic, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of young children who are slow to develop language skills, with pediatric speech delays more than doubling for children aged ...