The Center for Early Childhood Research is grateful for all of the families that support our work, and hopes that everyone is safe and healthy in these difficult times. We have compiled a list of several available resources throughout Chicago and Illinois for anyone...

The Center for Early Childhood Research at the University of Chicago has had a year full of fun and engaging science! We would love to share our research updates with you in our annual newsletter. We could not do our work without the support of local families- thank...

We don’t talk to infants the same way we talk to adults: almost automatically, we shorten our sentences, stretch out words, and exaggerate our pitch. This ‘baby talk’, or child-directed speech, appears across languages and across cultures. Why do we talk to children...

Child-directed interactions, one-on-one interactions that directly engage a child, have long been considered optimal for children’s early social learning, especially for early language development. There have been many naturalistic studies that show how children’s...