Language development in children is a complex interplay of genetic, neurological and environmental factors. In recent years, there has been growing recognition of the spectrum of language abilities, ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

In a noisy school cafeteria, two children speak over the conversations and clanging utensils happening around them. While many observers may see the children talking and think their ears are doing all ...

Stanford researchers made significant headway in isolating and understanding genes that lead to developmental disorders — helping to accelerate drug discovery and treatments for psychiatric disorders ...

The American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA) states SLPs are experts in the areas of speech production, fluent timing, language form and content, cognitive-communication, voice and ...