Resources

Frontiers for Young Minds - Journals are an important way for us to communicate research. A journal is a place where researchers submit their studies. Those studies are reviewed by their peers to make sure that they are doing things the right way. Once a group of scientists decide that a study passes their standards, they publish it in a journal.

Frontiers for Young Minds is a journal where young scientists like yourself publish novel studies - with the help of lead scientists. The studies here can range from questions about climate change to human behavior. This is a good place to look for examples of how young scientists run their own studies.

Here's an example of an article: Developmental Dyslexia: When the Brain Struggles to Read

Harvard Center on the Developing Child - One of the biggest challenges in doing science is figuring out how to communicate that science to other people. Places like Harvard Center on the Developing Child work on taking hard to understand concepts about child development and turning them into easy-to-read documents for parents, lawmakers, and the public. On this site you'll find videos as well as papers called Working Papers. These are typically short papers (15 pages) communicating the most recent information known about a subject.

Understood.org - There are a lot of resources for parents on the internet. Sometimes it's hard to figure out which resource is the best, which is the most trustworthy and which is just the advice of a local parent. Understood.org is designed to bring in the best ideas from researchers around the world and create guides for parents, educators and teens.

For example, here is a page on learning disabilities that involve Executive Function deficits: Understood.Org Executive Function featuring our very own Dr. Stephanie Carlson from the University of Minnesota.