The Incubator - Reading as a neuroprotective intervention
The Incubator Channel · 21 Aug 2026 · 41 min
Summary
A podcast-style conversation with a NICU parent-author and a feeding specialist on reading to preterm and critically ill infants as a neuroprotective and neuropromotive developmental care intervention. It covers evidence on auditory stimulation and language outcomes, the role reading gives parents, and how units can set up low-cost reading programmes.
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