Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai report that early-life exposure to common environmental metals may ...

Matching the sight and sound of speech — a face to a voice — in early infancy is an important foundation for later language development. This ability, known as intersensory processing, is an essential ...

Developmental scientists and medical social science experts at Northwestern University have spearheaded the creation of the most recent NIH Toolbox, providing the newest nationally standardized ...

Infant sleep patterns and emotional regulation are important for healthy development, but it is challenging to get real-time insights into infant behavior. Researchers at the University of Illinois ...

Ambient air pollution is associated with respiratory infection burden in the first year of life, according to preliminary findings from the Immune Development in Early Life (IDEaL) Rome Cohort.

Stanley I. Greenspan, 68, a child psychiatrist who wrote more than a dozen parenting books and developed the popular "floor time" method for reaching children with autism and other developmental ...

As any parent can attest, the first few years of a child's life are marked by many sleepless nights. However, the expectation that infants should sleep through the night by a certain age is widespread ...