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Bilingual babies have an edge over monolingual babies in having better intellectual abilities, a new study has found. Being able to speak more than one language does not only boost linguistic skills, ...

We measured blood lead concentrations in 172 children at 6, 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, and 60 months of age and administered the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scale at the ages of 3 and 5 years.

From 2019 to 2021, rates of intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder did not increase by a statistically significant amount. The report found 1.65% of children had an intellectual ...

Dr. Hakon Hakonarson, director of the Center for Applied Genomics at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, who was not involved in the study, said that because most cases of intellectual ...

"Diagnosing children with neurodevelopmental conditions like autism and intellectual disability can be a lengthy and frustrating process for families," said Julian Martinez, MD, Ph.D., associate ...

Parents are being warned not to give their children a common over-the-counter allergy medication as it could cause hallucinations and intellectual disability.

We aim to determine long-term intellectual outcome of adolescents with early high-dose treated congenital hypothyroidism (CH). Sixty-three prospectively followed children with CH were assessed at ...