After being alerted to ongoing research by the Talk to Your Baby campaign (TTYB), linking 'away-facing' buggies to speech and language delay in children, Firbank Children's Centre, in Lancashire, joined a scheme to consider the benefits of this style of transport. The centre swapped its existing pushchairs for 'pusher-facing' buggies in October.
'It seemed like common sense when we heard the initial findings that children who had most face-to-face contact had the best speech and sense of well-being,' says Firbank manager Sarah Hargreaves.
Final results into what is the first-ever study on the psychological effects of buggies on young children's development were published late last month. The study found that:
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