Reading To Your Children Improves…

How important is reading to you?

Pediatricians often recommend parents routinely read aloud to their young children.

Now, for the first time, researchers have hard evidence that doing so activates the parts of preschoolers' brains that help with mental imagery and understanding narrative — both of which are key for the development of language and literacy.

“There have been a good number of studies that have [found] empirical evidence that reading to kids does have an impact on things such as literacy and oral language readiness,” Dr. Thomas DeWitt, director of the division of general and community pediatrics at Cincinnati Children's Hospital, told The Huffington Post. “But prior to this study, we really have not been able to [answer], ‘Does it have an impact biologically on brain function?'”

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