Alex Hodges spends significant time every day with her infant daughter doing what kids these days might call "yapping." "Maria can't watch you today because one of her kids is sick," Hodges begins one ...

NEW YORK -- Listening to a newborn's plaintive squall, parents hear the hungry promise of a life to come. In the babbling that precedes an infant's first halting attempts to talk, however, scientists ...

Parenting looks different for everyone, and this Ohio mom is sharing her motherhood journey as a mom of two deaf sons and a hearing daughter. In a video that is unquestionably too cute to miss, ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – How do babies learn to talk? Across languages and cultures, parents simplify their speech significantly in response to babies’ babbling and early speech – an exchange that appears ...

A new study of how a baby babbles, plays and interacts can help predict their cognitive abilities decades later, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study, published in the journal PNAS.

Could a baby’s still-growing brain help set the stage for learning language? Princeton neuroscientists find surprising clues from chatty monkeys who share the power of babble. PRINCETON, N.J. — When a ...

Babies come into the world with everything they need to make music: a voice, a body, a brain, says Brooke Safford, founder of Music Together Chattanooga. Since 2015, the local program has hosted ...

The next time you hear your baby babbling, it might give some insight into their future. CU Boulder researchers now say it’s one of the signs they’re studying that helps indicate future intelligence.

The first year is the most phenomenally transformational period of a baby's life. Your little one evolves from an absolutely helpless newborn into a lively toddler within 12 short months, with ...