Topics featured in this book include:

Early vocal contact and the language development of preterm infants.

The maternal voice and its influence on the stability and the sleep of preterm infants.

Parental singing as a form of early interactive contact with the preterm infant.

Recorded or live music interventions in the bioecology of the NICU.

The role of the music therapist to hospitalized infants.

The Calming Cycle Theory and its implementation in preterm infants.

Early Vocal Contact and Preterm Infant Brain Development is an essential reference for researchers, clinicians and related professionals, and graduate students in developmental psychology, pediatrics, neuroscience, obstetrics and nursing.