From the Kennedy Krieger Institute press release: New findings published in Pediatrics (Epub ahead of print) by the Kennedy Krieger Institute’s Center for Autism and Related Disorders reveal that 70 percent of children with autism…
From the UBC press release via EurekAlert!: Babies as young as seven months can distinguish between, and begin to learn, two languages with vastly different grammatical structures, according to new research from the University of…
From the Northwestern University press release via HealthCanal: Though learning to read proceeds smoothly for most children, as many as one in 10 is estimated to suffer from dyslexia, a constellation of impairments unrelated to…
From the McGill University press release via EurekAlert!: A study of eye movements in schizophrenia patients provides new evidence of impaired reading fluency in individuals with the mental illness. The findings, by researchers at McGill…
From the Brown University press release via EurekAlert!: Aphasia, an impairment in speaking and understanding language after a stroke, is frustrating both for victims and their loved ones. In two talks Saturday, Feb. 16, 2013,…
From the University of Bergen press release via EurekAlert!: Two years ago, researcher Josef Bless was listening to music on his phone when he suddenly had an idea. “I noticed that the sounds of the…
From the Concordia University press release: Language mixing – using elements from two languages in the same sentence – is frequent among bilingual parents and could pose a challenge for vocabulary acquisition by one- and…
From the Society for Neuroscience (SfN) press release via ScienceDaily: Seniors who have spoken two languages since childhood are faster than single-language speakers at switching from one task to another, according to a study published…
From the University of Montreal press release via EurekAlert!: Older adults who have suffered from aphasia for a long time can nevertheless improve their language function and maintain these improvements in the long term, according…
From the SUNY Buffalo press release via HealthCanal: Research on the communication trait of verbal aggressiveness, which includes behavior like name calling, ridicule, insults, racial epithets and threats, has tended to focus on its social…