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...
Infancy Research Around the World
Young Children’s Human Rights
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...
Voices from the Field: Community-Based Solutions for Young Children in Guatemala
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...
Going the Extra Mile (or 1000 Miles) to Represent Infants
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...
Expect the Unexpected: Studying Language Acquisition in Small-Scale Societies
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...
Supporting bilingual families around the world
by Laia Fibla, Jessica E. Kosie, Ruth Kircher, Casey Lew-Williams, and Krista Byers-Heinlein Baby Sophia hears Spanish from her mother and Catalan from her father. Baby Andreas hears English from his mother, German from his father, and French at daycare....