Since the pandemic, more children have been starting school without being "school-ready." In 2022–23, 33% of all children starting reception in England did not have the skills needed for success in ...

Current school-based mental health support for children from multilingual backgrounds can be "lost in translation" because it is reliant on good proficiency in English, a new study warns. The work ...

Children learn to understand language and to speak largely independently of cognitive functions like spatial awareness, working (short-term) memory and perception (interpreting and organizing sensory ...

Developmental language disorder is a permanent condition that shows up in childhood, causing difficulties with speaking and comprehension. A new study has found that children with the disorder may ...

Studycat enhances its kids’ English app with VoicePlay, delivering real-time, phoneme-level pronunciation feedback in a ...

To avoid widespread school readiness gaps, experts say teachers and parents need to give children born since the pandemic an immediate language infusion. Already, studies find a third of children who ...

Studycat introduces a vocabulary-first French learning track that helps kids build core words through play, with ...

One of the joys of parenthood is watching your child reach milestones as they grow to become their own person: first laugh, first roll over, first steps. But one milestone parents really look forward ...

• University of Freiburg study on vocabulary acquisition uses novel game-based design • Study results: Children of primary school age can benefit from long-term experience with multiple accents when ...