A new study suggests marital conflict harms children as young as six months by hindering their development of emotional control and their ability to handle stress. Brigham Young University professor ...

Whether it is early intervention, parenting programs, preschool or home health, the Infant Development Program in Lock Haven ...

Every story, song, or word helps their brain connect language and emotion in ways that last well beyond infancy.

Hearing a mother’s voice helps premature babies’ brains grow faster and develop stronger language connections.

Automatic eligibility policies can help serve more infants and families with EI, but implementation is critical.

Sound investments that reduce early childhood adversity can strengthen the foundations of physical and mental health, delivering lifelong benefits.[2] Extensive research finds that the ...

The heartwarming sight of a parent interacting with their baby, characterized by high-pitched voices and affectionate responses, is not merely a display of affection but a crucial aspect of language ...

As any parent can attest, the first few years of a child's life are marked by many sleepless nights. However, the expectation that infants should sleep through the night by a certain age is widespread ...

Those of you who have young infants will be familiar with the babbling sounds they like to make. But how do you respond? A new study from The University of Iowa and Indiana University suggests that ...

An overview of existing data on imitation in infancy suggests that changes in the direction of imitation research are underway. The widely accepted view that newborn infants imitate lacks supporting ...

The ability to use the relations between visible landmarks to locate nonvisible goals (allocentric spatial coding) underlies success on a variety of everyday spatial orientation problems. Little is ...