Child Development Articles

• Educational Psychology
  Child Psychology
  Child Development
  Perception
  ADD and ADHD
  Behavior
   
  

  Special education

  Special education, describes an educational alternative that focuses on the teaching of students with academic, behavioral, health, or physical needs that cannot sufficiently be met using traditional ... > more
• Educational Psychology
  Language Acquisition
  Perception
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Intelligence
  Healthy Aging
   

  Dyslexia

  Developmental dyslexia is a condition or learning disability which causes difficulty with reading and writing. Its standard definition is a difficulty in reading and writing in spite of normal ... > more
• Autism
  Children's Health
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Birth Defects
  Healthy Aging
  Down Syndrome
   

  Rett syndrome

  Rett syndrome (or Rett's disorder) is a progressive neurological disorder that is classified as a pervasive developmental disorder by the DSM-IV. The symptoms of this disorder are easily confused ... > more
• Hearing Impairment
  Hearing Loss
  Healthy Aging
  Disability
  Perception
  Diseases and Conditions
   

  Hearing impairment

  A hearing impairment is a decrease in one's ability to hear (i.e. perceive auditory information). While some cases of hearing loss are reversible with medical treatment, many lead to a permanent ... > more
• Healthy Aging
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Infant's Health
  Sports Medicine
  Sleep Disorder Research
  Pregnancy and Childbirth
   

  Sudden infant death syndrome

  Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is any sudden and unexplained death of an apparently healthy infant aged one month to one year. The term cot death is often used in the United Kingdom, and crib ... > more
• Child Psychology
  Intelligence
  Educational Psychology
  Child Development
  Mental Health
  Psychology
   

  Child prodigy

  A child prodigy is someone who is a master of one or more skills or arts at an early age. One generally accepted heuristic for identifying prodigies is the following: a prodigy is someone who, by the ... > more
• Intelligence
  Child Development
  Child Psychology
  Psychology
  Language Acquisition
  Behavior
   
  

  Theory of cognitive development

  Although there is no general theory of cognitive development, the most historically influential theory was developed by Jean Piaget, a Swiss Psychologist (1896-1980). His theory provided many central ... > more
• Social Psychology
  Perception
  Autism
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Psychology
  Child Development
   

  Empathy

  Empathy is the recognition and understanding of the states of mind, beliefs, desires, and particularly, emotions of others. It is often characterized as the ability to "put oneself into another's ... > more
• Language Acquisition
  Apes
  Child Development
  Anthropology
  Cultures
  Behavioral Science
   

  Great Ape language

  Research into non-human Great Ape language has generated a great deal of evidence suggesting that apes are capable of using sophisticated communication with humans and other apes. Gorillas and ... > more
• Diet and Weight Loss
  Nutrition
  Dieting and Weight Control
  Obesity
  Attention Deficit Disorder
  Nutrition Research
   
  

  Gluten-free, casein-free diet

  Many parents of children with autism have reported that a gluten-free casein-free diet helps their children. According to the theory, some children are unable to digest the protein in many cereals ... > more

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