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Reading To Your Six-Month Baby Can Boost Language Skills In Childhood-Study

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18-05-2017 | 04:26

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A new research, presented at the Paediatric Academic Societies Meeting last week, said that reading books to your child in early infancy can improve vocabulary and reading skills four years later before they begin school.

Researchers observed more than 250 pairs of mothers and babies over a four and a half year period to see how well the children understood words as well as the strength of their literacy and reading skills.

They compared their findings with the quantity of book reading i.e. amount of books in the home and days per week spent reading together and the quality of shared book reading. Quality was evaluated by asking parents if they had conversations with their child about the book, whether the children interacted with the pictures of the book and the emotions of the characters and whether the stories were age appropriate.

The researchers adjusted for socioeconomic differences and found that reading quality and quantity in early infancy showed that the child vocabulary up to four years later. Book-reading quality during early infancy foretold strong reading skills at an earlier age while the quantity and quality of book reading during the toddler years was strongly tied to late literacy skills such as the children being able to write their names at age four.

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