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...age is when they direct their attention to things that interest them, so their focus on the video shifted to the woman's mouth as she spoke. Infants "lip read" until they are about 10 months old, which is when they shift their focus back to the eyes as they master the basics of their native language. The...

...fighting what doctors say about him. At age 10, he lost his voice for a year, but that didn't stop him from participating in his school choir. "I was lip-synching before it was cool," he says. At age 13, both of...

...region of the face, including the cheeks and nose Boys with autism have a broader or wider mouth and philtrum – the divot below the nose, above the top lip. Boys with autism have a broader or wider upper face. She says these are subtle differences that will enable researchers to further study people with...

...defect, can be very isolating. Each year about 120,000 babies are born with a defect. The most common are: heart (a common result of prematurity), cleft lip/palate, Down Syndrome, Spina bifida (when the spinal cord develops incorrectly, leaving it exposed), arm and leg, gastrointestinal, and eye defects....