helpful parenting behaviors can improve these indicators

Researcher Dena Birch describes “social disadvantage” as a spectrum of how well a family’s financial needs are met. Birch is the Associate Dean for Research and professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts and Sciences and the Gregory B. Couch Professor in the School of Medicine. Researchers at St. Louis University wanted to see how "prenatal social disadvantage," the newborn brain, and parenting factors in cognitive and language skills. Prenatal social disadvantage refers to not having the resources to meet a family's basic needs. To do this, they recruited St. Louis clinics to find pregnant women from different backgrounds. They followed approximately 200 new mothers and their newborns at ages 1 and 2 to conduct parenting observations, as well as assess language and cognition. What they learned is that prenatal social disadvantages are linked to lower cognition and language scores, and helpful parenting behaviors can improve these indicators, but only to a limited

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