Psychology & Psychiatry
Give your child a head start with math
(HealthDay)—Many kids struggle with math—and for a number of reasons.
Aug 14, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Baby talk words build infants' language skills, study shows
The more baby talk words that infants are exposed to the quicker they grasp language, a study suggests.
Aug 1, 2018
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Music playschool enhances children's linguistic skills
According to the research conducted at the University of Helsinki, weekly music playschool significantly improved the development of children's vocabulary skills. Several studies have suggested that intensive musical training ...
Jun 12, 2018
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Study reads between the lines in children's vocabulary differences
The nation's 31 million children growing up in homes with low socioeconomic status have, on average, significantly smaller vocabularies compared with their peers.
Nov 30, 2017
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Building social communication skills in shy children helps with peer likeability
A new study by Yale-NUS College Assistant Professor of Social Sciences (Psychology) Cheung Hoi Shan has discovered that shy children with low English vocabulary skills, can still be popular among their peers if they have ...
Sep 20, 2017
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A child's spoken vocabulary helps them when it comes to reading new words for the first time
Children find it easier to spell a word when they've already heard it spoken, a new study led by researchers from the ARC Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders (CCD) at Macquarie University has found. The findings ...
Jul 19, 2017
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In young bilingual children two languages develop simultaneously but independently
A new study of Spanish-English bilingual children by researchers at Florida Atlantic University published in the journal Developmental Science finds that when children learn two languages from birth each language proceeds ...
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Analysing the way children sleep could help us to understand autism
On average, humans spend roughly a third of their lives asleep. This might sound like quite a long time, but sleep has been shown to be vital for "normal" human functioning. Without enough sleep, things go downhill for most ...
Mar 28, 2017
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Young children's spatial talk predicts their spatial abilities
It's not how many words a kid knows; it's how they choose them that tells Hilary Miller the most about their spatial skills.
Nov 29, 2016
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Researchers find predictor of child vocabulary
At 12 months old, your infant's ability to group objects according to the names associated with them—as opposed to their appearance alone—offers a glimpse into how his or her vocabulary will develop by the time they are ...
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