At age 4, Teddy Halpin could name all the United States presidents in order. "He could give you every football and baseball players’ stat, even the most obscure ones, you know, he knew it all," mother ...

Recently, vice presidential candidate Tim Walz and his wife Gwen shared with People magazine that their son has a non-verbal learning disability (NVLD). What does that mean? From the name, you’d think ...

USC-led study of patients with epilepsy shows how making new neurons benefits cognition in adults. Why do adults make new brain cells? A new study published in Cell Stem Cell provides the first ...

Over the past four decades, educators, clinicians, and researchers have become increasingly aware that there are children who have no problem with purely verbal activities, and may even be verbally ...

Verbal learning is what allows people to understand language, remember instructions, and take part in everyday conversations. The loss of this skill can be devastating, especially for those already ...

A NON-verbal learning disorder (NLD) can impact a child’s ability to understand concepts and impact other areas of their development. But what are some of the other signs and symptoms parents should ...

The Wada test (WT), introduced in 1949 by Juhn Atsushi Wada as a procedure to determine hemispheric language lateralization (HLL) 1, was further developed in 1962 to additionally assess hemispheric ...

Midway through Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz's keynote address Wednesday night accepting the Democratic Party's nomination for vice president, he turned to his family and said: "Hope, Gus and Gwen, you are ...