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The research team identified 26 infectious agents that can potentially cause hearing loss, which is especially dangerous if contracted during pregnancy because it can harm the developing auditory system and cause congenital deafness.

Health

Sixty per cent of childhood hearing loss is preventable

30 May 2025

Article

To capture the children’s reasoning in action, Dufour used a qualitative and interpretive approach.

Society

Preschoolers can reason better than we think

14 March 2025

Article

The goal of Natalie M. Fletcher's work is to have young people's views recognized as both relevant and valuable.

Society

Respecting children's philosophical wisdom

7 November 2024

Article

Sexual abuse is not always violent; it can involve more insidious forms of abuse such as blackmail and manipulation.

Health

Children with intellectual disabilities at greater risk of sexual abuse

6 November 2024

Article

Some parents may be using their phones as a way of avoiding emotionally charged situations, such as managing their child’s anxiety.

Society

Is parents’ cellphone use harming their kids?

22 October 2024

Article

20 per cent of the autistic children displayed an intense or exclusive interest in letters, compared with only three per cent of the non-autistic children.

Health

‘A different way of perceiving the world’

17 October 2024

Article

According to the study, children who regularly practiced a sport were more likely to get better grades and less likely to drop out by their senior year of high school, compared to those who did little or no sports.

Society

Sport: a plus for academic success

6 August 2024

Press release

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

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

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