Baby Speech Development Research

Here you'll find links and information about research into baby and child speech, language and brain development.

If you have a link you would like included, please email me: educationella@gmail.com
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 Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley 

 The Early Catastrophe: 30 Million-Word Gap by Age 3 - GSA

  Downloadable PDF

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How do speech and language develop?

The first 3 years of life, when the brain is developing and maturing, is the most intensive period for acquiring speech and language skills. ... If these critical periods are allowed to pass without exposure to language, it will be more difficult to learn.

NIH http://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/voice/pages/speechandlanguage.aspx

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University of Calgary, Canada. Speech Development Lab

Our research focuses on describing and understanding the initial steps in infancy that begins the language acquisition process. We study infants from birth up to three years of age to explore the initial biases that humans begin life with and we explore how these biases change or evolve over time through experience and development.

http://psych.ucalgary.ca/speechlab/
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 Purdue University

Developmental Speech Production Laboratory 

http://www.purdue.edu/hhs/slhs/research/labs/dspl.html

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