Research shows that hitting children of kindergarten age harms their literacy skills through eighth grade.
Child & Family Blog EditorJanuary 2021
Articles relating to child language development from some of the world’s top child and family researchers.
Research is looking at what affects language development in children. Stress and adversity and key factors affect linguistic development. There is interesting research on the effects of bilingualism on child learning.
Reminiscing has been described as “emotional socialisation”, nurturing a child’s emotional development. Parents sensitively reminiscing about earlier experiences with their children is part of early…
Child & Family Blog EditorNovember 2019
Cognitive development at adolescence predicted by early mother-child and caregiver-child interactions.
Deborah Lowe VandellNovember 2019
Support for language development in early childhood needs to start right at the beginning and in the home.
Child & Family Blog EditorJuly 2019
Study shows a correlation between screen time at age of 3 and missed early childhood development milestones at 5.
Sheri MadiganMay 2019
Language development in infancy is influenced differently by well-educated mothers and fathers, even though they read to their young toddlers (1 to 2 years old)…
Child & Family Blog EditorMay 2019
When a father supports a toddler’s autonomy, the child is likely to show better executive function at the age of five and so be readier…
Child & Family Blog EditorApril 2019
Parents boost language development in early childhood by naming what children see, touch, smell, taste and do as they play.
Catherine S. Tamis-LeMondaFebruary 2019
