On this week’s On Call for All Kids, Therese Montanari, the director of the Speech-Language and Feeding program at Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital, discusses pediatric speech-language issues and ...

Pre-linguistic Stage (0-12 months):During the pre-linguistic stage, babies communicate using sounds, gestures, and facial expressions. They begin to respond to voices and make cooing sounds. This ...

Language milestones are successes that mark various stages of language development. They are both receptive (hearing) and expressive (speech). This means that in addition to being able to make ...