📢 Children's word #reading skills are linked to the number of books at home and mother-child reading activities—even after accounting for parental reading skills as a proxy for genetic influences. 🧬📚 🔗 Read more: doi.org/10.1111/jcpp... 🧵👇1/6

Books at home and reading to children is seen as causally related to childrens literacy development. Such studies often dont account genetics. In our study in JCPP, we do, and what happens then? 😊 with @drelsje.bsky.social @grandegerman.bsky.social acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨🚨Our work on the intergenerational impact of mothers and fathers on children’s word reading is finally out in an open access article in JCPP. Thanks to @drelsje.bsky.social @dramland.bsky.social @melbylervag.bsky.social and Arne Lervåg for this great collaboration! doi.org/10.1111/jcpp...