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In French, the concept is called Rues écoles, and it's designed to address concerns over safety, traffic problems and kids not getting enough physical activity.

Health

'I've made new friends'

15 May 2024

Article

Florence Deguire’s work opens up the possibility of detecting neurodevelopmental abnormalities that are currently not diagnosed until age four or five.

Science

Cognitive performance at age four can be predicted in infancy

22 March 2024

Article

Miriam Beauchamp and Dominique Dupont

Health

Concussions in young children: symptoms still present three months later

21 March 2024

Article

While “neurotypical” children can also be prone to aggressive behaviour, it seems to be more frequent and intense in young people with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Health

Decoding aggressive behaviour in autistic children

6 December 2023

Article

Community

The Canadian Pediatric Imaging Platform (C-PIP) receives $5.6M

24 May 2023

Press release

Society

Quebec’s proposed new child labour law is a good start but the issues are complex

25 April 2023

Article

Health

Kids' sleep apnea is under-diagnosed

31 March 2023

Article

Health

Preventing type 2 diabetes in young people is possible without medication

14 March 2023

Press release

Karine Gagné

Community

Karine Gagné: Blending theory with practice

3 March 2023

Article

Health

What factors influence children’s learning of fear?

15 February 2023

Article

Health

Technologically assisted communication may impair brain development

17 January 2023

Article

Health

Incurable neurodegenerative myelin diseases: a hopeful advance

1 December 2022

Press release

Society

Promoting the well-being of immigrant children

28 November 2022

Press release

Health

Largest study on COVID-19 in Canadian children and teens now underway

6 October 2022

Press release

The Ornaments of the Arma Veirana Early Mesolithic Infant Burial

Community

Bringing up baby, 10,000 years ago

26 September 2022

Article

Society

Starting kindergarten: Normal stress for the vast majority of children

7 September 2022

Article

Science

Does language acquisition begin before birth?

17 August 2022

Article

Tarik Möröy, professor at the Université de Montréal and researcher at the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, with his student Marion Lacroix, a doctoral student in his laboratory.

Health

Towards a cure for lymphoma: new research brings hope

11 July 2022

Press release

Health

Study shows need for national breast milk monitoring programs for PFAS

22 February 2022

Press release

Society

Children’s book helps kids cope with a premature sibling

21 January 2022

Brief

UdeM archaeologist Julien Riel-Salvatore (r) and his doctoral student Geneviève Pothier Bouchard (l) excavating the burial site of baby Neve in the Arma Veirana cave in Liguria, Italy, in 2018; in the background is PhD student Simon Paquin.

Culture

Equal at birth and in death

14 December 2021

Press release

Science

Climate change and children’s mental health: We need to act now!

4 November 2021

Article

Society

Play ball! (It’s good for you)

27 September 2021

Press release

In 2017, all Québec 5-year-olds enrolled full time in kindergarten – about 80,000 children – took the Québec Survey of Child Development in Kindergarten conducted by the Institut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ).

Health

How is COVID-19 affecting our kids? Children’s Health and Education Observatory gets $5M

14 June 2021

Article

Pediatric traumatic brain injury (TBI) is particularly prevalent in toddlers; they’re more likely to be injured because they have a lower sense of danger and are still developing physically. But parents and clinicians have trouble detecting symptoms of trauma, given the toddler’s limited verbal skills.

Health

Head injury and concussion in toddlers: early detection of symptoms is vital

1 June 2021

Press release

In Montreal, for every 1,000 black English-speaking children, 19.6 had their situation assessed by the youth centre, compared to 5.9 for other visible minority children and 3.5 for white children.

Society

Black children are overrepresented in Quebec's child welfare system

16 March 2021

Article

So far, parents representing 1,000 children ages 2 to 17 daycares and schools in Beaconsfield and the Plateau have answered questionnaires.

Health

Very few Montreal children got COVID-19: survey

14 December 2020

Press release

Society

Starting kindergarten on the right foot

2 November 2020

Press release

Society

Going to daycare good for boys

22 September 2020

Press release

Parents need to be creative and use technology wisely when following the recommendations. A good strategy is to plan the child's activities the day before.

Society

Your children's screen time during confinement

14 April 2020

Article

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