New AAP guidance emphasizes longitudinal assessment and collaborative partnerships to foster healthy mental and emotional development in children.

During the first years of their lives, children develop the cognitive, social and emotional skills that will provide the foundations for their lifelong health and achievements. However, exposure to ...

Nonparental child care is a key support for working parents and contributes to long-term child health and development. Yet high-quality affordable care that meets parents’ needs can be hard to find.

Today, Congresswoman Erin Houchin (R-IN) and Congressman Chris Deluzio (D-PA) introduced the bipartisan Screen-time ...

Christine Stewart holds packets of lipid-based nutrient supplements, a paste that typically includes oil, peanut butter, milk powder, vitamins and minerals. (Karen Higgins/UC Davis) A small sachet of ...

In the United States today, some 27,000 pediatricians provide care to 24 million children under the age of six. Many pediatric practitioners are overburdened, struggling to provide care to a panel ...

Co-play and face-to-face interaction shape communication, emotional growth and problem-solving. Play, whether a child plays alone, with peers or with caregivers, supports brain development and early ...

Laredo Public Health will offer summer sensory integration and Zumbini classes to support development, coordination and ...

Luby is an infant/preschool psychiatrist clinician researcher at Washington University School of Medicine. Barch is a clinical scientist researcher at Washington University in St. Louis. The New York ...

Within the United States, education is commonly regarded as an equalizer to opportunity and upward mobility. In reality, there are countless impediments in the system that exclude low-income children ...

It is considered one of the most critical learning and development phases of a human being. In the initial years of life, the child’s brain grows and develops rapidly, and this is the time when the ...