New research reveals that extreme heat doesn’t just threaten health and the environment—it also slows early childhood ...
Researchers discovered that unusually high temperatures can hinder early childhood development. Children living in hotter ...
Young children exposed to unusually high temperatures are less likely to reach basic developmental milestones in literacy and ...
As temperatures rise around the globe, researchers are scrambling to study the impacts on human health. They've linked ...
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC)’s guidelines on children’s developmental milestones, certain behaviors — like playing peek-a-boo, babbling, mimicking the movements of others or ...
For the first time in decades, the nation’s top pediatricians have changed the checklist of developmental milestones for infants and young children to make it easier to identify delays that could be a ...
From the time they are born until they reach age 5, young children experience immense development. During this period, they should hit important developmental milestones in the ways they play, speak, ...
Dr. Paul Lipkin specializes in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, where he directs medical outpatient services.