{"id":2474,"date":"2013-01-29T20:44:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T20:44:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/?p=2474"},"modified":"2015-09-21T15:25:49","modified_gmt":"2015-09-21T22:25:49","slug":"study-a-good-nights-sleep-could-lead-to-a-good-days-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speechbuddy.com\/blog\/speech-therapy-techniques\/study-a-good-nights-sleep-could-lead-to-a-good-days-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: A Good Night\u2019s Sleep Could Lead to a Good Day\u2019s Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Research out of the University of York and Sheffield Hallam University<\/a> has shown that a good night\u2019s sleep can help children develop their vocabularies better and retain new words more efficiently. The British study found that when children age seven and up (as well as adults) slept within 12 hours of learning new words, they were more likely to retain the vocabulary. This could change how we present speech therapy techniques<\/a> for better retention!<\/p>\n

Researchers have long known that sleep works to aid adult learners, but this new study has found this mechanism in much younger learners, which can be a huge breakthrough in the timing of how and what children retain.<\/p>\n

One of the study authors, Dr. Anna Weighall said<\/a>, “These are truly exciting results which open up a new dimension of research in our understanding of language development. Our work provides the first evidence that sleep is associated with the integration of newly-learned words into the mental dictionaries of\u00a0children.\u201d<\/p>\n