When the main character of a kids TV show can both listen and respond to viewers by using advances in artificial intelligence, youngsters learn more from the program. That’s what my colleagues and I ...

There’s a saying that when you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one, meaning that autism looks differently for each person. Hence the use of the word spectrum. Which is why I think we still have ...

As fictional horror characters keep ascending to viral internet fame among children, a subset of widely-followed YouTube channels have been producing cartoons depicting these figures in even more ...

Parents have long named their kids after favorite characters across pop culture. Now, as young readers who grew up with Harry Potter become parents themselves, they have given their children names ...

A new study revealed that main characters in children’s books are still most often male. Professors at Princeton University and Emory University analyzed over 3,000 children’s books published over the ...

Growing representation In 2018, 23% of children’s books published depicted characters from diverse backgrounds, according to research from the Cooperative Children’s Book Center at the University of ...

My son, Jake, was diagnosed with autism when he was 3, and when my daughter, Abby, was 18 months. And while Abby was too young to recognize Jake’s different needs when he was first diagnosed, as she ...

Two years ago, as GreatSchools embarked on research for the second season of our podcast for parents, Like a Sponge, I faced a mounting sense of worry. Our podcast was about the science of learning, ...