While robots have been shown to be feasible and acceptable in dementia care, there remains some contention about their ...

That looks delicious.” But Golinkoff maintains that the hard skills children acquire through doll play are secondary to the social and emotional benefits. “When a child picks up a doll ...

Within her paintings, dolls conjure the emotions of everyday life ... to help with balance training and orthopedic exercises for children. These toys make the challenging spaces of psychiatric ...

“Kids have more of an emotional connection to dolls than they do to other toys,” says Kim Culmone, the head of design at Mattel. “It was important that this particular doll was a blank ...

Teach kids to recognize and name their feelings — while having fun — with toys that show them different facial expressions.