There are reasons why dietary supplements may be beneficial for some. Examples include:• Those with a poor diet may benefit from taking a multivitamin.• Those with milk allergies may benefit from taking calcium and vitamin D• Those who don’t eat fish may benefit from taking Omega 3s• Vegans may benefit from taking vitamin B12• Pregnant…
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We are personally inviting you to be part of a Cherab Foundation research study by answering a few simple questions. (you can remain anonymous if you choose) Please answer the survey put together by the research webmasters to learn what YOU want from the new Cherab Foundation website to help the children you care for who have…
Heavy Metals In (Just?) Baby Food
While there is a focus on infant and toddler food, heavy metal contamination, including lead, arsenic, cadmium, and mercury, is relatively common across the food supply Helena Bottemiller Evich, Policito 2021 ‘Parents Erupt Over FDA Failure To Regulate Toxic Metals in Food Lead, arsenic and cadmium are commonly found in baby foods, but also in…
Autism severity can change substantially during early childhood
“IQ is considered to be the strongest predictor of symptom severity for children with autism, As IQ scores increased from age 3 to age 6, symptom severity levels decreased” Waizbard-Bartov et al. (2020). UC Davis MIND Institute study Around 30 percent of young children with autism have less severe autism symptoms at age 6 than…
Patton’s Proclamation For Apraxia Day
Like most children would be, 5-year-old Patton McCarthy was excited to meet the mayor of his town who was coming to his house to honor him with a proclamation. Patton practiced over and over, “Thank you very much, Mr. Mayor.” What is remarkable are those words that would come easily to most children, took years…
Home (Schooling) With Kids Due To Coronavirus
Schools will need to iron out a lot of details. If services are missed, the U.S. Department of Education says IEP teams must consider make up or “compensatory” services. Andrew M.I. Lee, JD editor of Understood and former attorney who strives to help people understand complex legal, education, and parenting issues Lindsay Jones, JD chief executive…
Why It’s Smart School’s Out For Coronavirus
“We do not know why children under 9 do not have issues with the virus. They have very high concentrations of the virus and there’s no obvious reason they should not transmit efficiently … X-rays of children’s lungs show that they’re clearly diseased & clearly infected, but they don’t show any symptoms” Ralph Baric, Ph.D….
Eating fruit during pregnancy boosts babies’ brain development, new study confirms
” The idea that nutrition may also impact mental health and cognition has only recently started to gain traction,” Rachel Ward-Flanagan co author of study University of Alberta A follow-up to a University of Alberta study done in 2016 confirms that pregnant women who eat more fruit during pregnancy may be giving their babies’ cognitive development a…
Study: Baby and adult brains sync up during play
Have you ever played with a baby and felt a sense of connection, even though they couldn’t yet talk to you? New research suggests that you might quite literally be “on the same wavelength,” experiencing similar brain activity in the same brain regions. I just read this study and thought this would be very interesting…
Study: Toddlers using ‘screens’ more than 1 hour a day may have lower speech skills
“In addition to the MRI results, excessive screen time was significantly associated with poorer emerging literacy skills and ability to use expressive language, as well as testing lower on the ability to rapidly name objects on cognitive tests” Associations Between Screen-Based Media Use and Brain White Matter Integrity in Preschool-Aged Children John Hutton MD JAMA…
