Professor Paula Zeanah, Research Excellence Award for 2019-20 recognizing her exceptional scholarship in her home Co
Mini-grant gets positive response
Sat, 07/01/2017 - 9:45amDr. Paula Zeanah developed and hosted Wrap Your Arms Around Reading, a mini-grant project funded by Project LAUNCH. This 3-session educational program for new parents and new infants (0-6 months of age) incorporated research that demonstrates the powerful impact of the early parent-infant relationship on brain development and the child’s long term development, and research that shows how early parent-infant reading can boost young children’s cognitive and academic skills. The educational and interactive sessions highlighted awareness of how very young infants communicate, using reading as an activity that both enhances the developing parent-infant relationship and develops early reading experiences that are fun and rewarding for the baby and parent. Parents and infants received books at each session to take home and enjoy. Though the initial group was small, the response was positive, and we are continuing to develop and extend this program to reach more new parents.