Here is what I am reading today:
‘We can hardly be surprised, meanwhile, that music lessons improve children’s IQ7, given that they will nourish general faculties such as memory, coordination and attentiveness.”
“A tool that automatically assesses young children’s vocalizations should enable faster and more objective measures of language learning in natural environments than current methods allow. And its developers claim that the new tool may also help the early detection of autism by detecting speech abnormalities associated with it.”
“A clinical implication of these findings is that the possibility of an ASD should be considered for young children who present with feeding problems, pervasive food refusal, and limited food preferences, and appropriate questions should be asked about the child’s social communication, shared attention, and stereotypic and self-stimulatory behaviours,” the researchers concluded.