As taxpayers, parents and educators debate the value of public preschool for every child, a new study by UC Berkeley and Stanford researchers finds for the first time that middle-class children -- not ...

Preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary and analytic talk about books combined with early support for literacy in the home can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word ...

It’s “Down on the Farm” week in preschool on the University of Missouri campus. Eight young children gather around four college students who are their clinicians for the semester. The letter of the ...

Language is a central element of social life. It is not only a prerequisite for personal relationships, but also for employment prospects. Scientists investigated whether children with a specific ...

Early engagement with music has been shown to boost language development, memory retention and even brain development.

The Preschool Language Intervention Program (PLIP) was created in January 1983 by Speech Pathology and Audiology (SPPA) faculty member Candice Warner at Western Michigan University, to serve children ...

Children face difficulty in learning and communication in kindergarten as they learn French which is not their mother tongue. This can negatively impact their educational journey however, a new study ...

MANILA, Philippines — A mother’s concern over her child’s language difficulties goes beyond the surface level. Given the pivotal role of communication as the medium by which children learn when they ...

New research finds preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition. Preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary and ...

Language is a central element of social life. It is not only a prerequisite for personal relationships, but also for employment prospects. If a child's language development is impaired, this can have ...