PORTLAND, OR – Exposure to air pollution may have serious implications for a child’s developing brain and cause damage to ...

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

Home visitor programs are run by local governments and nonprofit organizations and are funded largely through a federal ...

One of the joys of parenthood is watching your child reach milestones as they grow to become their own person: first laugh, first roll over, first steps. But one milestone parents really look forward ...

Source: spass/bigstockphoto What happens when 40 percent of a generation cannot function effectively at school? Signs are emerging that this may happen with the children who were 0 to 6 years old ...

The programs are an outgrowth of the awareness of the importance of the first 3 years in a child’s intellectual, emotional ...

It’s true. According to researchers, babies are born with a special gift: their developing brains can tell the difference between the approximately 800 sounds that make up all the languages in the ...

Kimberly Hillier does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. My son Grayson was about two and a half years old when his preschool teacher called me. A child ...

An AI model using deep transfer learning—the most advanced form of machine learning—has predicted spoken language outcomes ...

What nurtures a child’s holistic development? How can we address the cognitive overload and parent-child disconnect of the ...