{"id":2718,"date":"2018-01-18T10:13:18","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T23:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/?p=2718"},"modified":"2018-12-18T14:06:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T03:06:32","slug":"study-shows-value-of-dads-reading-to-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/2018\/01\/18\/study-shows-value-of-dads-reading-to-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Dads improve language outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Centre for Community Child Health study has shown the impact of fathers on children&#8217;s language development.<\/p>\n<p>The study found that fathers who read to their children at home at two years had improved language development, but not emergent literacy skills, at four years. This remained even after accounting for the mother&#8217;s home reading and socioeconomic disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p>Lead author Dr Jon Quach said the research filled the blank pages on the role of fathers in supporting the language development of children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaternal shared reading practices do predict literacy, but fathers\u2019 contributions were previously less certain,\u201d he said. \u201cThe findings also further support the importance of reading to children from an early age, by all adults in the child\u2019s life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information on the study, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcri.edu.au\/news\/dads-reading-new-chapter-child-language-development\">Murdoch Children&#8217;s Research Institute.<\/a><\/p>\n<h4>Media<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.9news.com.au\/national\/2018\/01\/17\/18\/13\/fathers-reading-bed-time-stories-to-toddlers-could-improve-their-literacy-skills\">Fathers reading stories to toddlers &#8216;could improve literacy skills&#8217;<\/a>, Nine News, 17 January 2018<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/tenplay.com.au\/news\/national\/january-2018\/dads-reading-to-kids-improves-language-skills-study\">Dads reading to kids improves language skills: study,<\/a> Ten Eyewitness News, 17 January 2018<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.3aw.com.au\/kids-better-readers-if-dad-does-bedtime-stories-rather-than-mum\/\">Kids better readers if Dad does bedtime stories rather than Mum<\/a>, 3AW, 17 January 2018<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-01-dad-chapter-child-language.html\">Dad&#8217;s reading is new chapter of child language development<\/a>, Medical XPress, 17 January 2018<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When dads read to children at 2 years, language improves at 4 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":2719,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5937,5939,12010],"tags":[11994,12035,5056,11967],"class_list":["post-2718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","category-research-and-programs","category-staff","tag-child-language","tag-jon-quach","tag-literacy","tag-sharon-goldfeld"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2718"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2924,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2718\/revisions\/2924"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/ccch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}