Children seem to grow and change so quickly. One moment, they are learning to crawl, and before you realize it, they are ...

Decades of research show that early psychosocial stress, including chronic exposure to adversity, can shape how a child's ...

A new study published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders suggests that the ability to comprehend complex ...

Toddlers who spend hours in front of a screen are more likely to suffer anxiety issues as teenagers, warns new research. Long ...

Delayed onset of canonical babbling and first words is often reported in infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Identifying the neural mechanisms underlying language acquisition ...

Children exposed to high levels of screen time before age 2 showed changes in brain development that were linked to slower ...

Infants born deaf or hard of hearing show adverse changes in how their brains organize and specialize, but exposure to sound and language may help them develop more normally, according to new research ...

A Harford County day care is teaching American Sign Language, or ASL, to its students as young as 6 weeks old to help them communicate and develop empathy for others. The Learning Experience, a Bel ...

Roughly one in ten babies worldwide is born before 37 weeks of pregnancy – a birth considered preterm. These infants are biologically less mature at birth and face a higher risk of developmental ...

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