UConn KIDS researcher Marie Coppola investigates how deficits in language early in life may impact other abilities downstream. Her work is featured in UConn magazine. Review it here.

UConn researchers explore Dad’s importance in being involved in mealtime decisions. Read the entire article here.

While advocates work hard to remove unhealthy food choices from schools (where children might spend their lunch money in unhealthy ways) food advertisers repackage “smart snack” foods in a way that mirrors their unhealthy line of products as well.

Read more findings from The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity.

UConn’s research on literacy and new methods to support struggling readers has made great strides in improving reading skills according to the multiyear data collected from collaborating schools. Read more here.

In this video, UConn’s distinguished researcher Deb Fein explains how Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) can assist autistic children’s learning.

“In the classroom we teach kids to eat fruits and vegetables,” Friedman says, “but if they walk out into the hallway and the vending machines are full of candy bars and soda, what’s the message there?”  Roberta Friedman, and others at The Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, are working hard to build healthy messages for kids. Read more about their work here.

Our distinguished UConn Researcher of autism, Deb Fein, is featured in Connecticut Magazine. Read the article entitled “Solving Autism’s Puzzle” here.

Literacy work at UConn, including strategies and research, is making big impacts –  with a pilot reading initiative doubling the number of students meeting grade-level literacy goals!

Read here for more excellent work from UConn’s Neag School of Education and Center for Behavioral and Educational Research.

In addition to joining us here at UConn Kids in Developmental Science, consider our summer program for kids called Kids are Scientists and Engineers Too (KASET).  Find out more on the KASET webpage!