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The Kids Who Beat Autism
The New York Times: At first, everything about L.’s baby boy seemed normal. He met every developmental milestone and delighted in every discovery. But at around 12 months, B. seemed to regress, and by age
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How to Trick Your Kids Into Reading All Summer Long
The Atlantic: As the school year ends, students’ thoughts turn to summer vacation staples like swimming, camp, and popsicles. Teachers—and most parents—would like them to think about reading, too. School and district officials offer summer
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How Family Game Night Makes Kids Into Better Students
The Atlantic: There has been a lot of recent attention focused on the importance of executive function for successful learning. Many researchers and educators believe that this group of skills, which enable a child to formulate and pursue
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How Scientists and Doctors Use Baby-Friendly Tricks to Study Infants
ABC: For all the impressive advancements in medical technology, researchers and scientists still face a daunting challenge when they study the habits of the adorable but uncommunicative subjects called human infants. In order to study
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Why ‘Pinocchio’ May Not Teach Kids Honesty
Live Science: For parents looking to teach their children a lesson about honesty, a new study suggests “George Washington and the Cherry Tree” is a more useful morality tale than “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” Stories touting
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Preschoolers With Special Needs Benefit From Peers’ Strong Language Skills
The guiding philosophy for educating children with disabilities has been to integrate them as much as possible into a normal classroom environment, with the hope that peers’ skills will help bring them up to speed.
