Did you know that a baby’s skill at matching the sights and sounds of speech is predictive of their later language development? Sounds obvious, right? To learn language, babies need to associate what they see with words they hear, e.g., that furry four-legged creature...
Great info on dyslexia from speech-language pathologist Michael Tatro. We appreciate the shout-out for our Smarter Sleep sound machine, too! Supporting language development, including the creation of neuronal networks that process language sounds – which can be...
Here’s one for all the non-babies out there . . . this beautiful op-ed by Dr. David Haskell (link here: https://nyti.ms/3DS4bY6 ) laments the decline of hearing over life because of the destruction of hair cells and other factors including a decline in auditory...
NOVEMBER 2024 Neuroscience in the Nursery We’ve written about white noise before, highlighting its potential risks in early childhood due to its lack of the acoustic variation young brains rely on to construct language maps. It turns out that adults, too, may want to...
At 20 weeks, the muffled sounds the fetus first hears from outside the womb are really important for brain development. The reason is that in the second trimester, the fetus’s brain is still in the very early stages of setting itself up to process sounds. Having that...
Image from Canva “[C]linical studies suggest that physical activity during gestation is associated with a reduced risk of preterm birth . . .[and] improving offspring neurodevelopment” so for the benefit of both of you, keep on going. To read more about...
