Research

The first five years of a child’s life are crucial for emotional development, impacting children’s ability to learn both cognitively and socially. Children’s emotion regulation skills benefit from positive engagement in learning tasks. We studied how student engagement during an emotion regulation learning task...

Child care programs provide an environment for children to develop their social and emotional skills. To provide additional support for teachers in nurturing this development, we created MindfulNest, a technology tool designed to support 3 to 5 year olds’ development of emotion regulation strategies...

As the prevalence of mobile and touch-based devices continues to expand in society, so too does its impact on young children. With educational technologies also on the rise, young children benefit most from those technologies that are designed to be developmentally appropriate...

The development of a child’s emotional regulation skills is a crucial part of early childhood learning. Additionally, the introduction of well designed, interactive technology at a young age is also important as it creates positive attitudes in children about their ability to positively use and create technology...