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September 8, 2010

Autistic Toddlers Like Screensavers

Young children with autism prefer looking at geometric patterns over looking at other people. At least, some of them do. That's according to a new study - Preference for Geometric Patterns Early in Life As a Risk Factor for Autism.Pierce et al took 110 toddlers (age 14 to 42 months). Some of them had autism, some had "developmental delay" but not autism, and some were normally developing.The kids

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September 7, 2010

Toddlers With Autism May Fix Their Eyes On Geometric Patterns Rather Than Children Playing

Children with autism may stare at geometric patterns when they are just 14 months old rather than look at kids playing around or doing yoga, say researchers in an article published in Archives of General Psychiatry. Children without autism prefer looking at other kids doing things, the authors added. Autism is known as a complex developmental disability...

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August 24, 2010

Toddler Spanking By Parents Common In The USA

Spanking of toddlers in the USA is more common than people realize, especially if parents are aggressive towards each other, according to a report published in the peer-reviewed medical journal Pediatrics, which revealed that 65% of young children were spanked at least once over a four-week period by one or both parents...

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December 2, 2009

Psychologists suggest parents should wait to teach toddlers self-control

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Psychologists suggest that it may be detrimental to the developing brain to push it toward maturity too soon.

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December 1, 2009

Early Intervention Very Effective For Toddlers With Autism, Small Study

A small US study involving toddlers diagnosed with autism, some as as young as 18 months old, showed that intensive early intervention delivered by trained specialists and parents was very effective and improved IQ, social interaction and language ability.

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November 30, 2009

Early intervention for toddlers with autism highly effective, study finds

A novel early intervention program for very young children with autism -- some as young as 18 months -- is effective for improving IQ, language ability and social interaction, a comprehensive new study has found.

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Study Finds Early Intervention For Toddlers With Autism Highly Effective

A novel early intervention program for very young children with autism - some as young as 18 months - is effective for improving IQ, language ability, and social interaction, a comprehensive new study has found. "This is the first controlled study of an intensive early intervention that is appropriate for children with autism who are less than 2½ years of age.

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August 22, 2009

Visits To Nana’s May Keep Toddlers From Developing Negative Age Stereotypes

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It's easy to list the negative stereotypes attributed to the elderly: they are considered forgetful, hard-of-hearing, absent-minded and confused. What's unsettling is that those stereotypes can be present in children as young as two or three.

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Keeping Toddlers From Developing Negative Age Stereotypes By Visiting Nana

It's easy to list the negative stereotypes attributed to the elderly: they are considered forgetful, hard-of-hearing, absent-minded and confused. What's unsettling is that those stereotypes can be present in children as young as two or three. Research conducted by the University of Alberta's Sheree Kwong See, a psychology researcher, has identified that those stereotypes exist in some child

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May 3, 2009

Toddlers with autism may focus on co-occurring sounds, motions

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May 02, 2009 Originally Published:20090425.

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