Studies indicate that as many as 1 in 10 children in the UK have speech and language difficulties, and these are particularly prevalent in the early years. Language is central to learning ...

Tiny Happy People is a BBC website full of advice and activities that is useful for early years practitioners ... of professionals including speech and language therapists. We have lots of ...

The Week of the Young Child continues as we learn more about the role parents have in developing early language with babies ...

One way to detect Alzheimer’s early is by spotting changes to people’s use of language. This is because new speech problems are one of the first signs of a mental decline that could indicate the onset ...

That includes the development of the AI Screener, which screens young children who may need to receive formal diagnostics and ...

The research comes at a crisis point, with a record high number of children – 1.9 million – struggling to talk and understand words. The research of over 1,000 families with a child who ...

Trouble remembering the right word can be an early feature of Alzheimer's ... the chance of developing the disease doubles every five years after the age of 65. However, 1 in 20 people diagnosed ...

One way to detect Alzheimer’s early is by spotting changes to people’s use of language. This is because new speech problems ... disease doubles every five years after the age of 65.