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Child development

A toddler gets ready to select a toy from the machine, during the experiment.

Child development

Toddlers understand possibility

Published Nov 4, 2024

Children too young to know words like "impossible" and "improbable" nonetheless understand how possibility works, finds new work with 2- and 3-year-olds

illustration of a baby looking up at a floating ball, while sitting among several red and blue balls

Child Development

Born curious

Published Fall 2021

A new Johns Hopkins study is the first to show that curious babies become curious toddlers / Johns Hopkins Magazine

Cognitive science

Hand-writing letters shown to be best technique for learning to read

Published July 7, 2021

Hand-writing letters more effectively teaches reading skills compared to typing and watching videos, study finds

Cognitive science

Study: The most curious babies become the most curious toddlers

Published June 28, 2021

Infants' responses to surprising events like magic tricks are linked to later cognitive ability, researchers find

Public health

Tylenol during pregnancy may increase autism, ADHD risks

Published Nov 5, 2019

In analysis of umbilical cord blood, researchers discover that elevated levels of acetaminophen is associated with up to three times the risk of autism, ADHD diagnosis

Brain science

Babies understand counting years earlier than believed

Published Oct 24, 2019

Babies who are years away from being able to say 'one,' 'two,' and 'three' actually already have a sense of what counting means, study finds

Illustration of a teen right-side up in an upside-down world

Epidemiology

Tracking autism in teens

Published Summer 2019

The Autism and Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network will begin tracking the mental and physical health of teenagers with autism / Johns Hopkins Magazine