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 ...

Barbie, the iconic fashion doll launched by Mattel in 1959, has long been a beloved toy for generations of children. However, ...

A childhood rite of passage, doll’s houses have been played with and enjoyed by children for centuries and with good reason. Providing open-ended and imaginative play, a good quality dolls house ...

Human children often take care of toys like babies, and it seems chimps do too. Video by Melissa Hogenboom & Pierangelo Pirak. Malaysia's minister Zafrul Aziz will be representing the ASEAN bloc ...

Despite toy industry naysayers, who carped that nobody would want to play with a doll that ... scholars and therapists say that children often use these dolls in surprising ways that don’t ...

A museum has kept its promise to an Aboriginal community by letting children play with a set of painted shell dolls considered to be alive by the women who made them. The items, known as ...