A child’s first word can be a meaningful milestone for parents. But sometimes, children don’t have to say anything at all to teach us about how they develop their earliest vocabularies. Arielle ...

It is estimated that 15 percent of the U.S. population has some kind of learning disability. Often symptoms show up early and are picked up by a parent or physician. However there can be issues that ...

Or a language processing disorder can make it difficult to answer open-ended questions about what they’ve read, making it seem as if they didn’t do their homework. Or their hyperfixation on specific ...

A 5-year-old wearing headphones is instructed by a prerecorded voice to repeat what they hear word for word. Such a test, called sentence recall, measures auditory processing, memory and language ...