Child Development - Page 2 of 2

Child Development - Page 2

Adult-child conversations strengthen language regions of developing brain. Young children who are regularly engaged in conversation by adults may have stronger connections between two developing brain regions critical for language, according to a study of healthy young children that confirms a hypothesis registered with the Open Science Framework. This finding was independent of parental income and education, suggesting that talking with children from an early age could promote their language skills regardless of their socioeconomic status. Source 6f.