Pediatrics
Ask the Pediatrician: How can parents deal with children's tantrums?
Q: Our son seems easily stressed out and has awful tantrums. What can we do to deal with this?
Sep 20, 2021
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News tagged with reading books
Pediatrics
When it's story time, animated books are better for learning
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University found that digital storybooks that animate upon a child's vocalization offer beneficial learning opportunities, especially for children with less developed attention regulation.
Dec 19, 2019
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Health
Healthy holiday sleep for kids: a how to
Christmas, summer holidays, family gatherings – excitement and anticipation abound in young children's lives this time of year as do late nights and early rising with the sun – all potential sleep disruptors.
Dec 17, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research hones interventions for kids with developmental language disorder
In an average kindergarten class of 30 students, about two are experiencing developmental language disorder, meaning they learn language more slowly than their peers. While DLD is just as common as dyslexia or ADHD, fewer ...
May 24, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Five tips to help you make the most of reading to your children
Reading to your child is one of the most successful ways of instilling a love of reading in them. But in our recent study, more than one-quarter of primary-school-aged respondents claimed they were never read to at home.
Apr 2, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Certain books can increase infant learning during shared reading, study shows
Parents and pediatricians know that reading to infants is a good thing, but new research shows reading books that clearly name and label people and objects is even better.
Dec 11, 2017
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Pediatrics
For baby's brain to benefit, read the right books at the right time
Parents often receive books at pediatric checkups via programs like Reach Out and Read and hear from a variety of health professionals and educators that reading to their kids is critical for supporting development.
Dec 11, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Research shows the importance of parents reading with children – even after children can read
Margaret Kristin Merga, Murdoch University
Aug 28, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Engaging fathers in parenting intervention improves outcomes for both kids and fathers
A parenting program where fathers engage with their children through reading was found to boost the fathers' parenting skills while also improving the preschoolers' school readiness and behavior, finds a study led by NYU's ...
Jan 23, 2017
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Reading picture books with children holds promise for treating common language disorder
A clinical trial of book reading to help kindergarten children with Specific Language Impairment learn words has determined the number of times a child with SLI needs to hear a word to learn it: 36 times or exposures compared ...
Jan 19, 2017
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