The United States has one of the highest child poverty rates among all developed countries. One in six American children ...

According to the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, approximately 1 in 6 children in the United States have developmental disabilities which include physical, learning, ...

According to the National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, approximately one in six children in the ...

Many parents know that infants love to be sung to; however, there is limited prior research to show the long-term effects on ...

Machine-learning algorithms can now estimate the "brain age" of infants with unprecedented precision by analyzing electrical ...

Males are more than four times more likely to receive an autism diagnosis than females. But a new study by researchers at UC San Diego School of Medicine has found no clinical differences in autistic ...

No clinical differences between male and female autistic toddlers on all but one of the metrics. The sole exception was a ...

Images of Gaza’s starving babies have gone round the world. This is what malnutrition does in the first 1,000 days of life ...

A new study looks outside the home to see how children's surroundings impact their cognitive and emotional development.