The "heartbreaking" decision on the stalled sign language GCSE

There were celebrations last year when a GCSE in British Sign Language was approved...but a few months have passed and no ...
The Suburban

Language mixing has no negative effect on toddlers’ vocabulary development: Concordia research

Parents in bilingual and multilingual families can wrestle with when and how to expose infants and toddlers to words in different languages. However, a new paper from the Concordia Infant Research Lab ...
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France to ban children from social media, following Australia's example

France is preparing to ban children under 15 from social media in a dramatic crackdown inspired by Australia's world-leading move to lock minors out of major online platforms. President Emmanuel ...
The Economist

Secret script: China’s women-only language

Nushu emerged from the isolated villages of southern China and is the only language created and used exclusively by women. Today it is celebrated across China as a symbol of female empowerment, but ...
gc.cuny

Science Spotlight: Improving Speech and Language Therapy for Bilingual Children

Ph.D. candidate Thorfun Gehebe (Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences) aims to bridge the gap between speech-language sciences research and clinical practice to better serve bilingual children. An ...
CNN

AI-powered children’s toys are here, but are they safe?

Teddy bears and stuffed plushies have long been a mainstay in toy collections. But today they don’t talk back in a child’s imagination — some talk through built-in AI chatbots. Sometimes that’s a ...
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'Like a child seeking comfort': Body Language expert decodes JD Vance's ‘grief hug’ to Erika Kirk

🚨 BREAKING: Incredible moment as Erika Kirk brings Vice President JD VANCE on stage at University of Mississippi and the two embrace OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI: Body language expert Judi James has described ...
IEEE

Efficient Generation of Targeted and Transferable Adversarial Examples for Vision-Language Models via Diffusion Models

Abstract: Adversarial attacks, particularly targeted transfer-based attacks, can be used to assess the adversarial robustness of large visual-language models (VLMs), allowing for a more thorough ...
The Indianapolis Star

A Colts cheerleader used sign language so child could hear. The video went viral as inclusion lesson

A Colts cheerleader used sign language so child could hear. The video went viral as inclusion lesson A lesson inclusion went viral in a social media video as a Colts cheerleader communicated through ...