Will a child who's evaluated for autism later develop an intellectual disability? Can this be accurately predicted?

Neuroscientists have developed a new treatment approach for a language disorder that combines traditional speech therapy with noninvasive electrical stimulation of the brain. Brain stimulation helped ...

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is rooted in decades of research in behavioral psychology. It emphasizes observable behavior ...

University of North Carolina-led researchers have used brain connectivity charts built from functional MRI data as a tool for ...

Despite startling breakthroughs, the first words and signs of great apes are rarely publicly celebrated by scientists.

As director of the Language, Education and Reading Neuroscience Lab, communication sciences and disorders Prof. Elizabeth ...

Researchers have scanned the brains of more than 500 babies and young children in order to paint a detailed picture of the ...

A second unvaccinated child in Texas has died from measles ... not been used to stamp out the virus entirely. Even without the development of new vaccines, just getting existing ones to more ...

10 Therefore continuing to disaggregate data is crucial for advancing our understanding of how maternal diabetes and other in-utero exposures influence child development. Only when this happens will ...

We aimed to assess the association between iodine status during pregnancy and the cognitive and motor development of children at 4–5 years. Methods We conducted a prospective cohort study in four ...

Janet Mills a “petulant child” in an email to staff demanding retribution for her White House dust-up with President Donald Trump. Dudek also dismissed warnings from his staff that his effort ...

with language ability significantly below the child's cognitive or chronological age; non-verbal ability within the normal range on standard scores; and typical hearing, sensory and socioemotional ...