Study finds toddlers learn more from Elmo

There's something about Sesame Street's Elmo. Researchers at Georgetown University have found that toddlers performed a sequencing task better when an Elmo toy puppet demonstrated it than when an unfamiliar puppet performed the same exact task.

By Wendy Goldman Getzler

July 21, 2011

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Children's Digital Media Center, Elmo, Georgetown University, Sesame Street, Toddlers Learning from Socially Meaningful Video Characters

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