A recent research focus is to identify the impact of childhood trauma on neural and psychological functioning, with a specific interest in identifying the impact of critical periods of trauma exposure during development. (schematherapysociety.org)
It has implications for critical periods in development, for bilingual education and reading readiness, for developmental disabilities involving language, and for research on computer understanding of speech. (eventbrite.com)
Such stressors are thought to be particularly damaging during critical periods of brain development such as early puberty, he says. (sciencemag.org)