Developmental milestones are physical or behavioral signs of progress in infants and children. Unlike growth, these are ...

Healthy development can be upended by abuse and neglect, which may disrupt cognitive and language development and socialization and particularly hamper a child's ability to develop trust or self ...

Baby's first words: What first words are most common and why? We spoke to Speech and Language Therapist Janet Cooper to find out about babies' early words and how to build on them. Babies likes ...

Your baby’s communication skills grow a lot in their first year of life. Before they can even say their first words, babies will learn how to respond to you, express themselves and start forming ...

The more "baby-talk" words that infants hear, the quicker they grasp language, new research suggests. Studies of nine-month-olds found that those most exposed to small words ending in "y" sounds ...

The soft, gentle murmurs of a baby's first expressions, like little whispers of joy and wonder to doting parents, are actually signs that the baby's heart is working rhythmically in concert with ...

OXYTOXIN, known as the love, attachment or pleasure hormone, plays an essential role in social interaction mechanisms. In particular, it influences mother-child attachment. A British study ...