Dimensions of the language environment in infancy and symptoms of psychopathology in toddlerhood.

ABSTRACT: The quality of the early environment influences the development of psychopathology. Children who are deprived of sufficient environmental enrichment in infancy may be at higher risk for developing symptoms of psychopathology in toddlerhood. In this study, we investigated the prospective association between naturalistic measures of adult language input obtained through passive monitoring of infants' daily environments and emerging psychopathology in toddlerhood. In a sample of 100 mothers and their infants recruited from the community (mean age [range] = 6.73 [5-9] months), we used the Language ENvironment Analysis (LENA) system to measure multiple dimensions of infants' language environments, including both the quantity and consistency of adult speech and conversational turns in infants' d

SUBMITTER: King LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8285466 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature