Nurseries may trump informal or childminder care for kids’ psychological development: Linked to lower odds of poor social skills/behavioural issues, especially after a year or more On 2018-10-04 Attendance at a nursery/crèche staffed by professionals may be linked to better psychological development than being looked after by family/friends […]
Scientists use AI to develop better predictions of why children struggle at school On 2018-10-02 Scientists using machine learning — a type of artificial intelligence — with data from hundreds of children who struggle at […]
Analysis of billions of Twitter words reveals how American English develops On 2018-09-27 Linguists and geographers analysed 8.9 billion words contained within 980 million Tweets posted across the United States between 2013 and […]
Sensitive babies become altruistic toddlers: Infants’ attention to fearful faces predicts later altruism On 2018-09-26 Our responsiveness to seeing others in distress accounts for variability in helping behavior from early in development, according to a […]
New biomarker panel could accelerate autism diagnoses: About 17 percent of kids with autism identified with metabolic blood test On 2018-09-06 Investigators at the UC Davis MIND Institute and NeuroPointDX, a division of Stemina Biomarker Discovery, have identified a group of […]
Children take longer to learn two languages at once compared to just one — don’t fret On 2018-08-23 Worldwide immigration patterns are increasing the number of children who grow up exposed to two languages, a circumstance that provides […]
New study explains why genetic mutations cause disease in some people but not in others: Large genomic datasets and CRISPR offer new insights into disease risk On 2018-08-21 Researchers at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) and Columbia University have uncovered a molecular mechanism behind one of biology’s […]
Category learning influenced by where an object is in our field of vision On 2018-08-17 We humans are pros at category learning — the process by which we classify things, whether objects, concepts or events, […]
Students’ social skills flourish best in groups with similar skill levels On 2018-08-15 Research shows that the behavior of the people you most spend time with can affect your own behavior, for better […]
Strategic classroom intervention can make big difference for autism students On 2018-07-03 Special training for teachers may mean big results for students with autism spectrum disorder, according to Florida State University and […]