Are Premature Babies Talked to in the NICU Smarter?

February 21, 2014

Dr. Betty Vohr from the Warren Albert Medical Center at Brown University is the study’s senior author. Dr. Vohr and her team say this new research offers an easy-to-implement way for parents to aid their premature babies. She and her colleagues write in the journal Pediatrics that a baby still in the womb continues to be exposed to its mother’s voice, but a…

Vicki Clinebell majored in journalism at the University of Colorado and headed to an advertising agency before beginning a long career in broadcasting, spanning production and copywriting to Sales and Management for an ABC affiliate station.

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