These one-on-one conversations with your baby matter, and they especially make a difference for babies with hearing loss. Baby talk vs. parentese. Parentese is how you talk to you ...

Videos of caregivers chatting with babies as if they’re adults are going viral and sparking conversation. Instead of relying on traditional “baby talk,” some parents are choosing to speak to their ...

New device measures whether you're speaking enough words a day to your baby. April 22, 2008 — -- Parents worry about everything when it comes to babies: Is the infant sleeping enough, eating ...

If you’ve ever cooed at a baby, you have participated in a special experience. Indeed, it’s an all but unique one: Whereas humans constantly chatter to their infants, other apes hardly ever do so, a ...

Building young brains is the goal of PPLD’s LENA (Language Environment Analysis) Start program. The free, eight-week program ...

When a baby babbles and their parents respond, these back-and-forth exchanges are more than adorable-if-incoherent chatter—they help to build a baby's emerging language skills. But it turns out this ...