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Toddler communication
Infants can understand the difference between intentional and accidental actions from tone of voice alone, new research by the School of Psychology has shown.
How does television affect children?
Despite over 50 years of research there are still many gaps in our understanding of how watching television affects young children. ...Back to school checklist – eyes check – feet check
Queensland University of Technology (QUT) health experts are advising parents to put their child's health at the top of their back-to-school checklist....NIH study shows HIV-exposed children at high risk of language delay
HIV exposed children could benefit from early diagnosis, classroom intervention...Vanderbilt study finds melatonin eases sleep woes in children with autism
A new Vanderbilt study shows that the over-the-counter supplement melatonin is promising in helping children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), and their families, sleep better. ...Drug to Treat HIV in Children Shows Promise Via Stony Brook-Led National Study
Dr. Sharon Nachman, Study Chair, Calls Drug Important New Option...Telling children about death
How do you tell a little girl that her grandfather, her mother, her friend… has died, and that he or she has gone for ever? Txabi Arnal, a lecturer at the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), has analysed literary picture books that deal with death to see how they address this question. Taking this piece of research as the basis, he has defended his thesis entitled El tratamiento de la muerte en el álbum ilustrado infantil. Obras publicadas en castellano (How death is handled in illustrated children’s picture books. Works published in Spanish). As the author himself points out: “I have studied a subject matter that has barely been dealt with until now. My main aim has been to take away the fear, to tackle the taboo.” ...Parents, physicians, disagree on what the doctor ordered for childhood weight management
(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Parents of overweight children and their pediatricians agree that doctors routinely provide weight-management counseling -- but they disagree on just what the doctor actually ordered, a study by researchers at UC Davis has found....Children Don't Give Words Special Power To Categorize Their World
COLUMBUS, Ohio – New research challenges the conventional thinking that young children use language just as adults do to help classify and understand objects in the world around them....
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Jon
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12/10/2011 16:41:04
One reason people get the wrong idea: articles like yours that talk about "association with the risks of smoking"
Hello? Are you familiar with the ...
brigitte
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07/10/2011 14:29:44
Those listed items are not going to make much impact. Smoking compromises babies, but doesn't result in prematurity anymore than any other imperfect practice prenatally. ...
admin
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06/10/2011 18:47:06
Actually there is a great deal of published evidence of fluoride in drinking water severely harming the health of users.
Try examining the dozens of clinical ...
Richard Windsor
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29/09/2011 05:25:07
Point to a single double-blind placebo controlled trial that meets modern standards of evidence based medicine and I might consider your argument.
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