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Archived Featured Stories


Mary Abbott
Sand sculptures no mere child's play


Stephen Fawcett
KU center names winners of global community development competition

February 15, 2011


Betty Hart
Landmark Hart-Risley research inspires new studies

July 10, 2011


Hugh Catts
Grant sets five-year goal to overcome U.S. reading comprehension crisis


Eva Horn
Federal grant targets school readiness of preschoolers with disabilities


Betty Hart
New York Times: Betty Hart stresses reading books to children in age of electronic communication

March 8, 2010


Charles GreenwoodMartha Staker
$15.5 million children's campus of Kansas City/Educare of Kansas City opens June 7 to provide comprehensive child and family services

June 8, 2010


Joseph Donnelly
Burning and learning: fighting obesity nets academic gain for Kansas school kids

June 25, 2010


Dale Walker
Providers and parents partner in communication research

April 13, 2010


David Ekerdt
The stuff of life: research on the complexity of downsizing in old age

Septermber 16, 2010

Current Featured Stories

  • Children exposed to HIV before birth have more language problems
  • Prenatal omega-3 fatty acids have longterm benefits for kids?
  • iPad research promising for children with cortical visual impairment
  • Bilingualism no big deal for brain
  • Community matters in childhood obesity
  • Meeting social-emotional needs of infants
  • Understanding how some children recover from abuse
  • Shaping attitudes through person-first language
  • Breakthrough in language analysis finds possible autism screen
  • Gene on Chromosome 6 likely culprit in language, speech and reading problems
  • Finding simple, inexpensive ways to identify kids with autism before age one

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