New research shows that playing with dolls could help autistic children learn the social skills they lack. Research published in this week's New Scientist reveals that autistic children who played ...

A team from Cardiff University and Barbie—yes, that Barbie—recently studied the short- and long-term effects of children playing with dolls. It was part of a multi-year study, and they just ...

Playing with dolls could help the social development of children - including those with neurodiverse conditions such as ...

Dolls help children create wonderfully vivid and imaginative worlds, while also serving as unsettling reminders of the abyss ...

KRISTEN: WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR CHILDREN NOT TO HAVE DOLLS, REPRESENTATIONS OF THEMSELVES THAT THEY CAN CUDDLE, PLAY WITH, IMAGINE WITH? TAHIRAH: IN A LOT OF WAYS, IT’S ANOTHER WAY THAT OUR ...

UNICEF is working with partners to support Sudan's flagging health system, providing lifesaving care for children like 8-year ...

Roblox is generally thought of as a gaming platform for children, but parents looking to take an interest in what their kids ...

Just Play has launched the HOLOBRITE Pixie Lantern, an innovative toy that merges physical and digital play. Kids start by ...

One minute they're cooking up a meal in the pretend kitchenette, the next they're putting out a blaze in the fictional fire ...

In late 1988 serial killer Charles Ray Lee (Brad Dourif) avoids death by transferring his soul into a red-headed, overall-clad doll, giving birth to Chucky and kicking off the Child's Play saga.

They found that given a choice between Black dolls and white dolls, most Black children preferred to play with white dolls. Since that study, many ethnic and racially diverse dolls have made their ...

APPLETON (WLUK) -- The Appleton Building For Kids Children's Museum is seeing the first upgrades in a long time. The project ...