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Promoting language and literacy through shared book reading in the NICU: A scoping review

Lama K Farran; Sharon L Leslie; Susan N Brasher; Sanjoy Kumer Dey

Originally published 2025-03-06 · PLOS One
PLOS · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0318690 ↗

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How could a family participate in reading when a newborn is receiving intensive care?

The review maps how caregivers and neonatal teams have introduced shared reading and what researchers measured in that setting.

Who was studied?

Human-infant studies of shared reading in neonatal intensive care published from 2003 through 2023.

Age / stage: Neonatal intensive care

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  1. What research designs were available for the review to compare?
  2. What criteria determined which studies and settings entered the synthesis?
  3. How did the authors distinguish the adult’s participation from the child’s engagement?

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Coverage depends on the databases, languages and inclusion rules used by the review. Differences among the underlying study designs limit conclusions about effects.

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Lama K Farran; Sharon L Leslie; Susan N Brasher; Sanjoy Kumer Dey (2025). Promoting language and literacy through shared book reading in the NICU: A scoping review PLOS One. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0318690

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