Behavioral Research Blog - Infants

A child development researcher can encounter quite a few challenges when wanting to measure multiple data streams. How do you make that run as smoothly as possible plus integrate all data seamlessly?

Early in life, children are not capable of filling out a complete questionnaire or talking to an interviewer.

Coding behavioral data helps to understand what your data represents. But let's face it, it isn't much fun to do and it takes a lot of time. Here are 7 tips to make the coding process more effective.

Although children tend to spend more time indoor in sitting activities, they need feelings of exhilaration for behavioral development. Researchers investigated how risky play behavior can be encouraged.

Would it help if your brother or sister is sitting by your side when you're in pain? Would that ease the pain, or provide some distraction?

Developing motor skills appears to be related to language abilities. The research team of Sandy Gonzalez investigated whether consistency in handedness predicts receptive and expressive language.

To examine if a specific repertoire of repetitive movements was present in children with autism, researchers used home videos to code the behaviors of the infants.

Children learn from interacting with others, especially their parents. For example, reproducing the emotions that others express is part of that.

Children with ASD are three times as likely to exhibit disruptive behavior as their typically developing peers. Can PCIT help coping with behaviors such as defiance, stubbornness, and temper tantrums?

Our understanding of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has developed a great deal over recent years, but there is still much work to be done.