Home language and literacy environment and its relationship to socioeconomic status and white matter structure in infancy.

ABSTRACT: The home language and literacy environment (HLLE) in infancy has been associated with subsequent pre-literacy skill development and HLLE at preschool-age has been shown to correlate with white matter organization in tracts that subserve pre-reading and reading skills. Furthermore, childhood socioeconomic status (SES) has been linked with both HLLE and white matter organization. It is important to understand whether the relationships between environmental factors such as HLLE and SES and white matter organization can be detected as early as infancy, as this period is characterized by rapid brain development that may make white matter pathways particularly susceptible to these early experiences. Here, we hypothesized that HLLE (1) relates to white matter organization in pre-reading and readi

SUBMITTER: Turesky TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9922094 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature