News tagged with social skill

Training peers improves social outcomes for some kids with ASD

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who attend regular education classes may be more likely to improve their social skills if their typically developing peers are taught how to interact with them than if only the ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 30, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Study: Kindergarten friendships matter, especially for boys

High-quality friendships in kindergarten may mean that boys will have fewer behavior problems and better social skills in first and third grades, said Nancy McElwain, a University of Illinois associate professor of human ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Think you're in poor health? It could increase your odds of dementia

People who rate their health as poor or fair appear to be significantly more likely to develop dementia later in life, according to a study published in the October 5, 2011, online issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Oct 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Other-race effect': Clues to why 'they' all look alike

Northwestern University researchers have provided new biological evidence suggesting that the brain works differently when memorizing the face of a person from one's own race than when memorizing a face from another race.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jun 30, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (6) | comments 12 | with audio podcast

Early experience found critical for language development

We know that poor social and physical environments can harm young children's cognitive and behavioral development, and that development often improves in better environments. Now a new study of children living in institutions ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Routine screening for autism not needed: researchers

Proposals recommending routine screening of all children for autism gets a thumbs down from researchers at McMaster University.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Jun 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

Study: Children of divorce lag behind peers in math and social skills

Children whose parents get divorced generally don't experience detrimental setbacks in the pre-divorce period, but often fall behind their peers—and don't catch up—when it comes to math and interpersonal social ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jun 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Activision bets on online play for 'Call of Duty'

(AP) -- Activision knows it's more fun to blast on-screen enemies into oblivion with friends, so this fall it's launching an online service for its "Call of Duty" games that's part Facebook, part player matchmaker ...

Technology / Business

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Older is not always wiser when it comes to social gaffes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Older people have more difficulty detecting the social gaffes of others and this is due to an age-related decline in their emotion perception skills, new University of Otago research suggests.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 1

Children in formal child care have better language skills

Fewer children who attend regular formal centre- and family-based child care at 1.5 years and 3 years of age were late talkers compared with children who are looked after at home by a parent, child-carer or in an outdoor ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 05, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Sesame Street program improves development for children in Indonesia: study

Children exposed to Jalan Sesama, an Indonesian version of the children's television show Sesame Street, had improved educational skills and healthy development, according to a study by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Toddlers with autism show improved social skills following targeted intervention

Targeting the core social deficits of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in early intervention programs yielded sustained improvements in social and communication skills even in very young children who have ASD, according to ...

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created Dec 08, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research on developmental co-ordination disorder

New research has found children with developmental co-ordination disorder (DCD) previously known as dyspraxia have an increased risk of difficulties in attention, reading, short-term memory and social skills.

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 23, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UM researchers are studying child-mother interactions to design robots with social skills

To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and computer scientists from the University of California in San Diego ...

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Online games as social meeting places

boundary crossing in online games, researchers Jonas Linderoth and Camilla Olsson at the University of Gothenburg analyse the culture of online games and the boundary-crossing community associated with the activity. The report ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Oct 12, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1