“Our language shapes and defines us, makes us who we really are, but we are responsible for it too,” says Joel Maxwell. Joel Maxwell (Te Rarawa) is an experienced ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

The first few years of school are a crucial time for children, but new data shows one in four doesn't have the language skills needed to properly engage in the classroom. Early intervention has been ...

Jade Scown takes comfort in the peace and quiet of nature.(ABC News: Mary Lloyd) Jade loves being among the gums near the Murray River.(ABC News: Mary Lloyd) Among the still gums, on a bend in the ...

For more than a century, scholars have repeated a powerful idea: that the mistakes children make when learning to speak are the seeds of language change. From 19th-century linguist Henry Sweet's ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. If you have spent time with an infant, you might recognize the scene: A child is wailing, inconsolable, and you, the parent, have to go to the bathroom. Or eat.

President Donald Trump declared, by executive order, that English is the official language of the United States. To enforce that edict, his administration is making it more difficult for kids to learn ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) – Children with speech and language difficulties worked with horses in a first-ever pilot camp using evidence-based equine therapy. Some may not realize the impact that horses ...

SOUTH ABINGTON TWP. — In classrooms inside the Scranton School for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Children this week, children and adults painted fireworks of various colors. Others painted American flags on ...

For Leslie and Mark Begert, raising bilingual children in a predominantly English-speaking culture presented a challenge that many parents face: how to make language learning natural, engaging, and ...

China has for at least two decades directed children in Tibet to state-run boarding schools at ever-younger ages, trying to gut Tibetan culture and blunt generations of opposition to Communist Party ...

Student Derick Jackson communicates with DISD’s Director of Health and Physical Education Lisa Whitaker through sign language at a summer camp at Harry Stone Montessori in Dallas, June 16, 2025. The ...