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 one in six children in the ...

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 ...

A new cohort study from JAMA Network Open found that social media use in early adolescence is linked to significantly ...

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

Human children take longer to mature because of evolutionary advantages such as brain development, learning, and cooperation.

Longer breastfeeding duration is associated with greater cortical thickness, surface area, and improved fluid cognition in ...

Assistant Professor of Psychology at Yale University and 2025 APS Janet Taylor Spence Award recipient Julia Leonard’s ...

Abstract: Infants under five years old or commonly called “toddlers” always experience changes in terms of growth and development from birth to adolescence. Here the role of both parents in the ...

The abrupt cancellation of the grant program, called Ready To Learn, resulted in a loss of $23 million that would have gone to children’s educational shows and games. The first installment of ...