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Maternal mental health impacts children's cognitive and language development. Yet, reading to children and providing access to books mitigate this. Promoting shared reading for parents is a simple way to counteract maternal depression's negative effects on child language.
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Our Findings Indicate Child Exposure to Books at Home, Fostered Through Parent-child Shared Reading, Moderates the Negative Impact of Maternal Depression on Language Development.
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This page is a summary of: The longitudinal impact of pre- and postnatal maternal depression and anxiety on children’s cognitive and language development., Developmental Psychology, February 2024, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/dev0001700.
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