Monday, November 27, 2006
Dad's Can influence a child's vocabulary
Researchers have long known how important it is for mothers to talk to their babies.
Now a new study is showing the importance of dads talking to their toddlers, too. Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found that the number of words a father uses when a child is 2 might influence the child's vocabulary a year later.
"The fact was, the number of different words the dad used when their child was 24 months of age predicted the child's language score at 36 months of age," said Lynne Vernon-Feagans, co-author of the study. Vernon-Feagans is also the William C. Friday distinguished professor of Child and Family Studies at Chapel Hill's Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute.
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