The effect of story format on children’s brains
As a clinical researcher with the hospital’s Reading & Literacy Discovery Center, Hutton looks at how a child’s home reading environment during the first 5 years of life influences future literacy skills. Important factors include children’s access to books, how often adults read to them, and interactivity between adults and children during story time. Given the ubiquity of mobile devices in today’s homes, he also wanted to investigate whether a child’s brain responds differently to so-called en
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