BUFFALO, N.Y. – 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 ...

Testing among young children has expanded significantly in recent years, but there is a lack of studies to assess their ...

Language disorders in schizophrenia are a prominent clinical feature that manifest as disruptions in thought, syntax, and semantic organisation. These disorganised speech patterns are not only ...

In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center's Department of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery leveraged two main studies—one focused on ...

Linguistic symptoms and an onset early in life: Disorders to which this applies are frequently associated with left-handedness resp. mixed-handedness. The fact that left-handedness resp.

New screening tools in child health care are effective in identifying early language and communication difficulties in children. This is shown by two studies based on more than 6,000 children. New ...

When Shena Downs left her nearly 1-year-old daughter with her mother several years ago, she returned home to find her baby without a diaper. It was one of the first signs of her mother’s forgetfulness ...

Language may feel like one of the most distinctly human things about you, but the genetic groundwork for it appears to be ...

As artificial intelligence is rapidly developing and becoming a growing presence in health care communication, a new study addresses a concern that large language models (LLMs) can reinforce harmful ...

Liz Simmons is an education staff writer at Forbes Advisor. She has written about higher education and career development for various online publications since 2016. She earned a master’s degree in ...