Effect of Postnatal Depression on Parent-Child Communication

In partnership with Karitane and as part of our research into links between early language exposure and child language development, we are collecting infant-directed speech in groups of mothers with postnatal depression, mothers not clinically depressed but experiencing low mood, and mothers without depression.

We are looking to speak (confidentially) with Mum’s who:
* Are experiencing low mood and/or depression
* Whose infant is between 8-14months old
* Who speak English predominately
* Are able to come in to our Bankstown or Westmead BabyLab for 1 hour (we can provide child minding for the kids)

Please register or contact Christa directly to take part.

Researchers

Dr Christa Lam-Cassettari(opens in a new window)

Andrew McAlpin

Paige Noble

Partner / Funding Body

• Western Sydney University - MARCS Researcher Incentive Grant

Human Research Ethics Committee Approval Number: H11153

For more information or to register your interest, please contact:

Research

Research Focus

Research Projects

• Contingency in infant-directed speech: Neurophysiological and psycho-social responses in pre-linguistic infants
• Culture - Affect
• Effect of Postnatal Depression on Parent-Child Communication
• First Sounds and First Steps
• Functioning Listening Index (FLI)
• Many Babies
• Mummy, why does that lady talk funny?
• Optimising Infant Directed Speech
• Seeds of language development
• Speech adaptation: Neural mechanisms and stimulus information
• Speech Registers
• The role of properties of infant-directed speech on early word learning
• Visual Speech Benefit in Auditory-Visual Speech Perception: Infants, Children, Hearing Impairment
• Digital Infant Directed Speech (DIDS)
• Infants' sensitivity to lexical tone and stress in early speech perception

Publications

The Benefits of Multilingualism

OZI-SF Checklist Infant Vocabulary

OZI-LF Checklist Infant Vocabulary