Introduction In 2017, 535 million children (one quarter) of the world’s children lived in countries affected by armed conflict, violence, disaster and/or chronic crisis.[1] In 2018, over 29 million babies were born in conflict-affected areas, starting their lives in...
As a child development researcher, I appreciate the profound impact of childhood experiences on children’s neurodevelopmental, cognitive, social, and emotional trajectories. I, like many of my colleagues, chose this career out of a deeply rooted drive to generate...
All children have human rights. Article 1 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) establishes that, for the purposes of the Convention, “a child means every human being below the age of eighteen years”. The UN Committee on the Rights of the...
Background Guatemala, a Central American nation of 18 million inhabitants, boasts rich cultural, ethnic, and geographical diversity along with abundant natural and human resources. An estimated 40.19% of the total population is under the age of 18 (6.57 million...
Lessons learned from implementing neurodevelopmental research in The Gambia, West Africa by Sam McCann Convenience sampling has been ingrained in developmental psychology since its inception. In fact, the very first researchers in this field used the...
by Mireille Babineau, Katherine Jung, Myah Meleca, Shelby Suhan, Anicole Tan and Yi Lin (Elaine) Wang Although a large body of literature extensively studies language acquisition and factors that contribute to language development from infancy and...
