Sunday, July 27, 2014

Immigrants and reading study

Immigrant Families Read Together Less
In a poll of nearly 15,000 parents in California, researchers found that Hispanic and Asian immigrant parents were less likely than non-Hispanic white parents to read or look at picture books with their children. Low levels of parental education and household income were associated with reduced rates of daily book sharing.
Festa, N. et al. (2014). Disparities in early exposure to book sharing within immigrant families. Pediatrics. (doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-3710) 
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2014/05/27/peds.2013-3710.abstract

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