Turns out, the toys you buy your kids can affect how well they learn language, but maybe not in the way you think. Anna Sosa is an associate professor of communication sciences and disorders at ...

EdSource · Trump's cuts to Hispanic-Serving Institutions hit community college student programs hard If parents want to help their babies learn to talk, they need to ditch the chattering electronic ...

Just because a toy's packaging says it's educational doesn't make it so. That's the finding from a new study in JAMA Pediatrics that found some toys being marketed as language promoters got in the way ...

Talking toys usually come preloaded with questions and phrases designed to get children talking, and there’s no telling what kids will feel compelled to discuss. As internet-connected toys have begun ...

Just in time for the holidays, Geoffrey A. Fowler, writing in the Wall Street Journal, wonders whether we should worry about talking Internet-connected toys like Hello Barbie, which, he said, are “…a ...

Walk down the children's toy aisle in any store these days and you will be greeted with a cacophony of noise. Instead of the excited voices of children that you might expect, however, much of the ...

Whether it’s a Furby or Buzz Lightyear’s button that plays, ‘To infinity and beyond’, most digital audio applications inside toys are actually simple affairs. There’s no Arduino and wave shield, and ...

Fisher-Price toys are learning to speak Spanish just in time for Christmas. Now Spanish-speaking parents can show their children they love them not only by buying Technicolor cartoon toys but also ...