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The early years are when a child is most vulnerable, but it is also the time when effective interventions can deliver the biggest returns.
Kindergarten enrollment dropped 16% this year, according to an NPR survey of 60 school districts across 20 states.
Guidance on strong passwords has changed and children need to learn about it in a way that suits their stage of development.
Parents who use screens excessively in front of their kids may unwittingly sow the seeds of screen addiction and its consequences.
It’s been 25 years since autism was redefined and the surge in diagnoses and research began. But while we’ve come along way in our understanding of the spectrum, advances in drug therapies has lagged.
Language milestones matter not as the final word, but as possible signals about where children might be struggling and how they can be best supported to reach their full potential.
Working class families have struggled for years to afford quality child care. Could the newly proposed Child Care for Working Families Act make a difference? A child care policy scholar weighs in.
Cost-effective, scaleable early childhood development and education programmes can make a huge difference.
Our birth is one of the all-important bookends of our lives and affects so much of what comes later – so why don’t we think about it more?
Children start developing empathy and compassion as toddlers and should have a good understanding of generosity by age nine. Parents can help foster these behaviours.
New guidelines have been launched that make recommendations on the daily activities of babies and young children.
Valuing the skills and contributions of our educators and reversing the high rates of turnover is critical and can only be achieved through fair pay and rewards.
Providing text-message tips to parents on how to make their children stronger readers can make a difference, but only if parents don’t get too many or too few text messages, researchers find.
Fathers are important for children starting from the very beginning of life, but few early parenting resources are available for men. Two scholars who studied this explain their findings.
Kids often experience anxiety when separated from parents for short periods. Longer separations, happening with some immigrant children, is a different matter, a leading child psychiatrist explains.
The majority of South Africans are separated from the wealthy and formal-sector employed minority.
For years, educators have viewed socio-economic status as an influence on learning. Here’s why a recent study suggests the full story may be more complicated than that.
New research shows that children who are kind, supportive and understanding influence their siblings to act and behave in similar ways.
Adverse childhood events can not only cause lasting psychological effects but also learning problems. That, in turn, worsens health outcomes, as literacy is an integral part of health care.
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Top contributors
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Associate Professor, Canada Research Chair in Determinants of Child Development, Owerko Centre at the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, University of Calgary
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Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy, American University School of Public Affairs
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Bennett Chair of Autism, Telethon Kids Institute, The University of Western Australia
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Professor of Work and Organisation, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Deputy Director, Institute for Social Science Research, The University of Queensland
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Professsor of Public Health; Co-Director Consortium for Advanced Research Training in Africa; Panel Member, Private Healthcare Market Inquiry, University of the Witwatersrand
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Academic Director in the Graduate School of Development Policy and Practice, University of Cape Town
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Senior Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor and Head of School, School of Early Childhood and Inclusive Education, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer of Rhetoric, Boston University
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Associate Research Scientist, African Population and Health Research Center
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Professor of Political Communication and Public Opinion, Universidad de Buenos Aires
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Associate Professor at the Wits Reproductive Health & HIV Institute, University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher, University of Johannesburg
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Lecturer, University of Johannesburg
