Karolinska Institutet researchers report that children born before 34 weeks of gestation show persistent deficits in ...

Apr. 22, 2025 — Adolescents who sleep for longer -- and from an earlier bedtime -- than their peers tend to have improved brain function and perform better at cognitive tests, researchers have ...

A large international study finds that babies living in insecure conditions, including as refugees, display key social skills on par with children raised in more stable environments.

Infants as young as 15 months can use language context to infer the meaning of words referring to objects they’ve never seen.

Will a child who's evaluated for autism later develop an intellectual disability? Can this be accurately predicted? Early-childhood experts in Quebec ...

A program that provides early childhood education and childcare arrangements for more than 27,000 Ohio children could see its funding eliminated if a Trump administration budget proposal moves forward ...

The pandemic created disruption and family stress that may have lasting effects on young children’s social and emotional development. A Save the Children report released Tuesday found that ...