The second year of a child's life is a period of explosive cognitive growth, marked by rapid development in language, dexterity, and problem-solving. At age two, toddlers transition from sensory ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) — Babies are using their hands to communicate before they can actually talk. That appears to be a trend at many daycare centers where tiny infants are being taught sign language so ...

The school is the only one of its kind in the area and has a waiting list. Families who can’t enroll there must look elsewhere for services.

California schools will begin screening kindergartners and first- and second- graders for dyslexia to combat the state's low early reading scores.

A number of federal changes to the Office of Head Start this year are having local impacts. The federal Head Start program provides early childhood education and wraparound services to qualifying ...

A new report follows the lives of around 1,700 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in the largest study of its kind.

Kennesaw State University (KSU), the Atlanta Speech School, and Learn4Life are proud to announce the launch of the Impactful Read Alouds in Early Literacy Microcredential, a first-of-its-kind ...

Can your brain attune itself to a foreign language before you're born? A UdeM-led team of neuropsychology researchers has found that it can. A few weeks of prenatal exposure to a new language is ...

CALD children in Australia face greater early school challenges, especially in communication and language skills.

I was teaching elementary school in the Fall of 1983, and the rumor was that every Mrs. faculty member under the age of 35 was "in the family way" that ...

Studies reveal that when handwriting automaticity is achieved, it enhances the cognitive and "free-flowing" intellectual potential of creating more complex narratives.

Bilingual children gain more than a second language. New research shows that speaking two languages strengthens memory, reasoning, and adaptability.