If parents want to help their babies learn to talk, they need to ditch the chattering electronic toys and bring back the books and blocks. That’s the conclusion of Anna V. Sosa, an associate professor ...

New research says some "educational" toys for infants actually get in the way of learning. The Trouble With Talking Toys The Trouble With Talking Toys The Trouble With Talking Toys Just because a ...

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 ...

Katherine Martinko is an expert in sustainable living. She holds a degree in English Literature and History from the University of Toronto. Often marketed as educational, electronic toys have the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 Pediatricsthat found some toys being marketed as language promoters got in the way ...