Decades of research has revealed a relationship between childhood socioeconomic status
(SES) and brain development at the structural and functional levels. Of particular note is the …

What are the vocal experiences of children growing up on Malakula island, Vanuatu, where
multilingualism is the norm? Long‐form audio‐recordings captured spontaneous speech …

Most educators engaged in dialogic reading (DR) are adults, whilst less attention is paid to
the teaching effect of siblings on the language development of children with autism spectrum …

The number of US children living in households with extended families has greatly
increased in the last 4 decades. This demographic shift calls for a reevaluation of the impact …

The number of older siblings a child has is negatively correlated with the child's verbal skills,
an effect that is well known in the literature. However, few studies have examined the effect …

Introduction: Infants born extremely preterm are at high risk for neurodevelopmental
problems. However, their neurodevelopment exhibits a variety of trajectories. This study …

Prior research suggests that across a wide range of cognitive, educational, and health‐
based measures, first‐born children outperform their later‐born peers. Expanding on this …

We examine the relationship between allomaternal care (ie, care for children by individuals
other than the mother) and prosociality. Motivated by cross-cultural ethnographic evidence …

Introduction Interest in pragmatic development and its assessment has increased in recent
years, not only because of the predictive value of pragmatic impairments as warning signs in …

ABSTRACT Research Findings: The home literacy environment provides important support
for the reading development of preschool and early school-age children; however, existing …