Is it possible to spot personality dysfunction from someone's everyday word use? My colleagues and I have conducted research that suggests you can, and often sooner than you might expect. Whether in a ...

An increasing amount of attention is being paid to dyslexia and autism. These neurodevelopmental disorders affect a large number of children, to the point where they have become household names for ...

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A research team at the Medical Faculty Heidelberg at Heidelberg University has, for the first time, identified a potential therapeutic approach for the rare FOXP1 syndrome, a congenital developmental ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Children with speech and language difficulties worked with horses in a first-ever pilot camp using evidence-based equine therapy. Some may not realize the impact that horses ...

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 ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- They come from all walks of life – firefighter, author, nurse, bus driver and homemaker – but share the challenges of living with aphasia, a language disorder that affects the ...

This post was co-authored with Malak Elmessiry, Jessica Chuang, and Anayeli Huerta. According to UNESCO, more than half of the world population is bilingual or multilingual. At some point in life, ...

An “invisible” learning or language difficulty could be what is holding your child back. As schools and states aim to measure and increase student proficiency in foundational skills like reading, ...

A 5-year-old wearing headphones is instructed by a prerecorded voice to repeat what they hear word for word. Such a test, called sentence recall, measures auditory processing, memory and language ...