ArticleJournal of pediatrics. Clinical practice2025
Parents' Speech in the NICU and Language Development of Very Preterm Children at 12 and 24 Months.
Article in Journal of pediatrics. Clinical practice, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04826978 (Auditory Environment by Parents of Preterm Infant; Language Development and Eye-movements), which is not on this map. Cited by 3 papers.
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Auditory Environment by Parents of Preterm Infant; Language Development and Eye-movements
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Evolution of the auditory environment of very preterm infants before term-equivalent age in relation to room type and parental presence.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- From Hospital to Home: Continuity Between Skin-to-Skin Care and Later Verbal Engagement in Infants Born Preterm.The Journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Social orienting in prematurely born preschoolers: a case control study showing altered neural tuning towards voices, not faces.Molecular autism · 2025Article
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Abstract
Objective: It is unclear if speech input in neonatal units improves delayed language development in very preterm infants. This longitudinal study investigated whether the parents' speech in family-centered neonatal units associated with language outcomes in children born very preterm. Study design: The auditory environment of 82 infants born <32 gestational weeks was recorded using Language Environment Analysis at 32-34 weeks of postmenstrual age. The language environment was analyzed for the total recording time and the periods when the parents were present. Receptive and expressive language skills were measured at 1 year (MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory) and 2 years of corrected age (Reynell Developmental Language Scales III). Results: Father's word frequency on recording day ( Conclusions: Parents' speech in the neonatal unit may support language development of children born preterm, whereas high total adult words - including the time when parents were not present in the unit - may impair it. Our findings should be cautiously interpreted as the associations were weak. Trial registration: Auditory Environment by Parents of Preterm Infants (APPLE), registration number: NCT04826978, date of registration: 2021-03-29.
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