The FINANCIAL — new study using MRI has revealed structural brain changes in children with developmental language disorder (DLD), a common but under-recognised difficulty in language learning.

While kids can pick up new languages at a rapid clip, we adults often struggle to remember the word for fork three months into French class. Historically, this age-related mismatch in language ...

For quite some time, science has attributed learning difficulties such as dyslexia and language processing disorder to malfunctions in specific areas of the brain. Now however, new research from the ...

Brain exercises can help keep you mentally sharp at any age. Try these exercises for all ages, adults, and older adults that ...

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is characterised by receptive or expressive language difficulties or both. Children with the neurodevelopmental condition "struggle to comprehend and use their ...

Different learning difficulties do not correspond to specific regions of the brain, as previously thought, say researchers. Instead poor connectivity between 'hubs' within the brain is much more ...

A combined brain-scanning and behavior study has explored dyslexia in 7 & 8-year-old children learning how to read. Dyslexic youngsters were shown to have different activation in the left hemisphere ...

Challenge your mind. Like a muscle, the brain strengthens with use. Mander suggests learning a new language, playing music, ...

During these formative years, billions of neural connections are established, providing the architecture for all future learning and behaviour. Learning opportunities, as well as positive experiences ...