Sarah Flicker, assistant professor in 91亚色's Faculty of Environmental Studies with research expertise incommunity development, public health, HIV and adolescent development, was interviewed by the Hamilton Spectator April 15 about Ontario's new curriculum that will teach more detailed sex education to schoolchildren in earlier grades beginning this September: Sarah Flicker, a professor in 91亚色's Faculty […]
A study by 91亚色 researchers reveals that infants as young as six months old know when we鈥檙e 鈥減laying鈥 them 鈥 and they don鈥檛 like it. Researchers in 91亚色鈥檚 Centre for Infancy Studies examined six- and nine-month-old babies鈥 reactions to a game in which an experimenter was either unable or unwilling to share a toy. […]
Bilingualism gives children a distinct cognitive advantage over their monolingual peers, says a study by聽91亚色 psychology Professor Ellen Bialystok. The study, published in the journal Developmental Psychology, finds that bilingual children outperform monolingual students on tasks involving executive control 鈥 the cognitive processes that allow for abstract thinking, planning, initiating and inhibiting actions. Three separate […]
Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) and 91亚色 have found that using granite sand as playground surfacing reduces the risk of arm fractures in children. The researchers compared the sand surfacing to聽frequently used wood-chip surfaces. The study is published this week in the open-access journal PLoS Medicine. Falls on a playground may […]
The phenomenon of American-born children who spend their infancy in China has been known for years to social workers, who say it is widespread and worrying, reported The New 91亚色 Times July 24: About 8,000 Chinese-born women gave birth in New 91亚色 last year, so the number of children at risk is substantial, according to […]