The number of US children living in households with extended families has greatly
increased in the last 4 decades. This demographic shift calls for a reevaluation of the impact …

Shared picture-book reading is well-recognized as beneficial for children's early language
development, especially where “dialogic book-sharing” techniques are used. Possible …

Social‐communication differences are a robust and defining feature of autism spectrum
disorder (ASD) but identifying early points of divergence in infancy has been a challenge …

The first years of life are characterized by rapid learning in several school readiness
domains, including language, math, and social-emotional skills, all of which are important for …

Parental reading to young children is well-established as being positively associated with
child cognitive development, particularly their language development. Research indicates …

Background Early and effective treatment for children with developmental language disorder
(DLD) is important. Although a growing body of research shows the effects of interventions at …

Infants undergo fundamental shifts in perception that are reported to be critical for language
acquisition. In particular, infants' perception of native and non‐native sounds begins to align …

Brain growth in early childhood is reflected in the evolution of proportional cerebrospinal
fluid volumes (pCSF), grey matter (pGM), and white matter (pWM). We study brain …

Objective To establish the extent to which Rugby Union was a compulsory physical
education activity in state-funded secondary schools in England and to understand the …

The role of working class mothers' talk in explaining their child's 'impoverished'language
development and the resulting 'word gap'between social classes is hotly debated. Academic …