Sentences with phrase «studying speech development»

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Parents may worry that teaching their baby to sign will interfere with normal speech development, but some studies suggest the opposite is true: Signing may actually improve language and vocabulary.

The research team used data from the Gateshead Millennium Study in north - east England, which provided information on when 602 children first reached out for food and other developments such as walking unaided and meaningful speech.

This is fine — studies have shown that «baby talk» doesn't delay the development of speech — but mix in some regular adult words and tone.

Kristina attended The University of Houston where she studied early childhood development and speech pathology.

«One hypothesis to explain speech development is that the sound of each word creates a memory, or template in the brain,» says Sarah Bottjer, a professor of biological sciences and psychology at USC Dornsife College and an author of the study.

They are consumer science; health and kinesiology; health sciences; hospitality and tourism management; human development and family studies; nursing; nutrition science; psychological sciences; and speech, language and hearing sciences.

A study carried out in a large primary school in a deprived area of the Midlands confirmed that nursery children with social, emotional mental health problems, who attend Psychomotor Prevention improved not only their physical development and emotional wellbeing but also speech & language measurably more than pupils not attending.

candidate in the Human Development and Psychology Program studying under the child advocacy strand, remembers watching her mother — a well - respected banker — drive two hours each day before and after work to ensure that her brother would receive speech and physical therapy.

Currently, Dillon is a post-doctoral fellow at Haskins Laboratories, a research institute in New Haven, Conn., that focuses on speech, language, and reading and biological basis, where she investigates the effects of a three - year study in which first - grade teachers were provided professional development seminars and in - class coaching in literacy instruction.

A father's language skills may have a greater impact on a child's language development than the mother's speech does, a study suggests.