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STUDY: AUTISM RISE FROM LABELING, NOT EPIDEMIC
A rise in autism cases is not evidence of a feared epidemic but reflects that schools are diagnosing autism more frequently, a study said Monday. More ...

SCANS SHOW DIFFERENT GROWTH FOR INTELLIGENT BRAINS
The brains of highly intelligent children develop in a different pattern from those with more average abilities, researchers have found after analyzing a series of imaging scans collected over 17 years. More ...

RESEARCHERS: INFANTS BEGIN LEARNING LANGUAGE AS EARLY AS 10 MONTHS
Infants are listening and learning their first words as young as 10 months, but they are only learning the words for objects that are of interest to them, not for objects of interest to the speaker, according to researchers at Temple University, University of Delaware and University of Evansville. More ...

 
   

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