North Carolina State University professor Toby L. Parcel discusses how school and family life affects child development during the 17th annual Marjorie Pay Hinckley lecture. (BYU College of Family, ...

Inaugurated in 2017, the annual Kessler-Freedheim lecture honors Dr. Jane Kessler, Professor Emerita of Psychology and former director of the Mental Development Center, and Dr. Donald Freedheim, ...

On Wednesday, November 30 at 4pm, University of Arizona Professor Megan Figueroa gave the LingCircle capstone lecture, "I Tried to Study Language Development and All I Got Was Linguistic ...

Children lie much earlier, and more often, than most parents expect. Understanding why can help adults respond with clarity, not panic, and teach honesty without shame.

For 45 years Craig and Sharon Ramey have studied how children learn and develop, and what happens when they don’t thrive for a variety of reasons including illness, and socioeconomic factors.

That’s a question parents, pediatricians, educators, and caregivers ask over and over again as children grow and change. To help answer this important question, child development experts have created ...

developmental assessments, therapy, ongoing care, and case management. Children we assess may have a developmental need or concern. They may also have characteristics of: Autism spectrum disorder, ...

Human development is influenced by, but not entirely determined by, our parents and our genes. Children may have very different personalities, and different strengths and weaknesses, than the ...