In 16 years of primary teaching, I haven’t taught a lesson in which children haven’t needed to understand and use language. It’s worrying, then, that the latest Early Years Foundation Stage Profile ...

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Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's ...

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In early years, we know that talk is fundamental to learning on so many levels. As education researcher James Britton once said: “Reading and writing float on a sea of talk.” But how do we ensure that ...

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...

A recent study published in the journal Infancy found that babies’ ability to match speech to faces predicted their future language abilities. The study followed 103 children from age three months to ...