The effects of maternal depression on speech to pre-school children: Implications for language development

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dc.contributor.advisorNewman, Rochelleen_US
dc.contributor.authorMiller, Annaen_US
dc.contributor.departmentHearing and Speech Sciencesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-10-10T11:18:46Z
dc.date.available2012-10-10T11:18:46Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.description.abstractWe examined whether a past history of maternal depression affects the manner in which mothers speak to their children, and whether any differences relate to child language development. To do this, we measured acoustic, temporal and content-based speech/language characteristics of 40 pre-school-aged children and mothers with and without a history of depression. Results indicated that children of mothers with a past history of depression exhibited significantly lower vocabulary scores than children of mothers unaffected by depression. However, no maternal speech/language variables appeared to account for this difference. Maternal pitch variability and number of negative utterances both were found to correlate with child vocabulary scores; however, neither variable was found to relate to prior depression status. We discuss possible explanations for these findings and implications for child language development.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/13011
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSpeech therapyen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledMental healthen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledchild-directed speechen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledchild languageen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledmaternal depressionen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledparent-child interactionen_US
dc.titleThe effects of maternal depression on speech to pre-school children: Implications for language developmenten_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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