Researchers want to examine the effects of movies on children aged 8 - 12 years. If your child joins this study, they will watch a 1-minute safety video at home and answer a short survey. At-home activities should take less than 20 minutes. Next, they will come to OSU campus for the lab part (parking is paid, mask wearing is required) with a same aged peer or sibling. There they will watch a movie clip for 20 minutes (rated PG) and afterwards be placed in a room containing toys and games that they can play with for another 20 minutes. The children will be videotaped so we can see what they do. Participation in the lab portion will take 50 – 60 minutes.

The purpose of the research is to determine the dietary patterns and calculate the dietary quality of children 6 to 24 months of age and enrolled in childcare centers, WIC, and other places that serve parents of young children; and to identify the most important cultural, social, and economic factors influencing the dietary and feeding patterns of these children. The total amount of time you will be asked to volunteer for this study is 2 hours and 10 minutes.

The primary goal of this research is to learn how children and mothers interact at home and how that interaction and the home environment affect learning and development. (1) We will film you and your child playing and going about daily activities for an hour in your home (2) We will film the rooms in your home, create floor plans of the rooms and spaces that are accessible to your child, and record the noise level in your home (3) We may ask you questions about your child’s movement, language, emotion, health, toys and animals and media use in the home, and racial and ethnic background as well questions about family health, division of household labor, and education. (4) We may ask you and your child to play with a set of child-friendly toys for a few minutes. This single session study will last between 2 and 3 hours.

To determine dietary patterns and calculate dietary quality of young children enrolled in child care centers, WIC, and other places that serve parents and young children; and to identify the most significant cultural, social, and economic factors influencing the dietary and eating patterns of these children.

The total amount of time you will be asked to volunteer for this study is 2 hours and 10 minutes.

The purpose of the research is to determine the dietary patterns and calculate the dietary quality of infants and enrolled in childcare centers, WIC, and other places that serve parents of young children; and to identify the most significant cultural, social, and economic factors influencing the dietary and feeding patterns of these children.

The total amount of time you will be asked to volunteer for this study is 2 hours and 10 minutes.

This research study will look at how brain and behavioral responses to emotional prompts relate to future behaviors. This research is being done to better understand risk factors and behavior change in adolescents. The total time that you will be involved in this study is 15 hours including 4 in-person visits and online follow-up forms every 3-months for 2 years.

The purpose of the study is to investigate how the brain that we are each born with leads to our own unique behavior later on in life. We are studying infants from as close to birth as possible and following up with them as they grow.

You will be selected as a possible volunteer for this study if your completed pre-screening form indicates your child has no conditions that would prevent having a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) procedure.

The total length of the study will be between 2 and 3 hours, including up to 1 hour outside the MRI scanner and 2 hours in the scanner. We are conducting 10 phases of this study as your child gets older;

Because the purpose of this study is to track development in each individual across time, we will ask you if you would like to participate in subsequent scan sessions as your child gets older or if your child cannot complete a scan at the current time.

The purpose of the study is to determine the amount of speech-language intervention children need to make improvements.

We hope to identify the appropriate amount of intervention needed as well as the point at which adding more intervention is no longer beneficial.

Participation in this study will last for approximately 10 weeks with one 2 hour session before the book reading intervention, one 2 hour session after the book reading intervention and a 6-month follow up.

Is your child nearsighted?

Nearsightedness, or myopia, is a condition that results in blurry vision when looking at distant objects.

Myopia happens when the eyeball grows too long or the cornea (the clear front cover of the eye) is too curved.
As a result, light entering the eye is not focused correctly. While glasses and contact lenses can help a person with myopia see clearly, they do not address the underlying stretching of the eye.

Myopia detected in young children tends to increase through the school years . As myopia progresses, it can increase the risk of retinal detachment, cataracts, myopia maculopathy and even blindness. To date, FDA has not approved any drug therapies for reducing myopia progression.

This is why researchers are working to develop new medications and technologies that may help children and teens with this condition. The CHAPERONE Study is a research study testing the safety and effectiveness of microdosed atropine eye solution to see if it slows the progression of myopia in children.

The goal of this study is to identify early risk for developmental language disorder (DLD) among young, low-income children, and to determine how caregiver and child chronic stress and interaction quality interact to disrupt language growth among these children. The long-term objective is to identify pathways through which early family situations and the conditions of poverty disrupt early language paths among low-income children and contribute to heightened rates of DLD.