Parenting books, magazines and apps are filled with tools to help parents keep track of their child's developmental milestones. Parents are often particularly concerned about their child's language and communication skills. ...
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Whether you learn to play a musical instrument or speak another language, you're training your brain to be more efficient, suggests a Baycrest study.
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The use of emoji to pictorially communicate the level of pain experienced by patients in the hospital is equivalent to the conventional numeric rating scale, and could offer distinct advantages in improving health care in ...
Jul 19, 2022
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Finnish speakers showed an advantage in auditory duration processing compared to German speakers in a recent doctoral study on auditory processing of sound in people with different linguistic and musical backgrounds. In Finnish ...
Nov 30, 2017
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(Medical Xpress)—Autistic traits diagnosed in early childhood, including communication problems and adaptive behavior deficits, tend to persist into adulthood. A very few autistic individuals demonstrate improvement in ...
For many people with dementia, memories of early childhood appear more vivid than their fragile sense of the present. But what happens when the present is experienced through a different language than the one spoken in childhood? ...
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Unequal compensation reduces people's motivation to work, even among those who stand to benefit from unfair advantages, finds a new UCL-led study.
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A new study from The Australian National University (ANU) has found that symbolic play in toddlers, which involves use of the imagination, is more beneficial to language development than functional play like puzzles, blocks ...
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The language people use on Facebook subtly changes before they make a visit to the emergency department (ED), a new study found. Researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and Stony ...
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An estimated 7,099 languages are spoken throughout the world today. Almost a third of them are endangered—spoken by dwindling numbers—while just 23 languages represent more than half of the global population.
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