Will stuffed animals and mini robots with built-in AI chatbots help or hinder children's language development?

Nineteen-month-old toddlers already use natural logical thinking, even before they learn to speak, to deal with uncertainties about the world. This natural logic contributes to their learning process, ...

Aiden may be just 3 years old, but he was old enough to know something was wrong recently at his family's home. When the toddler woke up in his grandparents' room on Wednesday, the smell of smoke hung ...

Christa Lam-Cassettari has received funding from the Marcus and Amalia Wallenberg Foundation in Sweden, ARC Centre of Excellence Dynamics of Language, the MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and ...

Are genetic factors underlying children's language development linked to later-life outcomes? In a genome-wide analysis, an international research team found genetic associations between children's ...

It makes sense that happy toddlers usually have happy parents. Such familial bliss isn't as hard to achieve as one might think, says Dr. Harvey Karp, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the UCLA ...

It's one of the comedy periods in a child's development - the moment that they start learning to talk. The earnest faces as your son or daughter attempt conversation, with their interpretation of what ...

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19-month-old toddlers already use natural logical thinking, even before they learn to speak, to deal with uncertainties about the world. This natural logic contributes to their learning process, both ...

Firefighters say the quick thinking of a toddler enabled his family to escape their El Sereno home when it caught fire Wednesday. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) Aiden may be just 3 years old, ...