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There’s an App for That: A Speech Language Therapist’s Perspective Image

There’s an App for That: A Speech Language Therapist’s Perspective

January 6, 2014

Recently, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, an organization which studies children's media, reported that "by 2010, two-thirds of children ages 4 to 7 had used an iPhone." Here's another one -- Warren Buckleitner of The New York Times blog Gadgetwise reports that "more than 40,000 kids' games are available on iTunes, plus thousands more on Google Play." Read More »


Baby’s Gaze May Signal Autism, a Study Finds Image

Baby’s Gaze May Signal Autism, a Study Finds

January 6, 2014

When and how long a baby looks at other people’s eyes offers the earliest behavioral sign to date of whether a child is likely to develop autism, scientists are reporting. Read More »


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Video Games Make Your Brain Bigger, Study Says

January 6, 2014

Those addictive video games that keep players glued to the screen may actually do the brain some good — or one of them does, anyway. A new study from the journal Molecular Psychiatry digs into the effect of video game play on the volume of the brain’s gray matter — the tissue responsible for muscle control, memory, language and sensory perception. Read More »


Babies Can Learn Music in the Womb Image

Babies Can Learn Music in the Womb

January 2, 2014

A new study published online by the PLOS One suggests that babies can learn a melody they hear while still in the womb, and recognize it after they are born. Read More »


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