Effective communication lies at the heart of human connection. It helps us collaborate with each other, solve problems and ...

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We all mix up words or have slips of the tongue sometimes, but there are times when jumbled speech represents a more serious neurological or psychiatric condition. In such cases, the phenomenon is ...

There are different ways to be smart, as Harvard psychologist Dr. Howard Gardner proposed in 1983 with his theory of multiple intelligences. Gardner believed that there were 8 distinct types of ...

Kate Burridge does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

My 12-year-old daughter looovvveeesss to stretch out spoken and written words by adding extra letters. When I read about a new study (Gray, Danforth, & Dodds, 2020) that analyzed the use of ...