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Filter by:Children with developmental language disorder (DLD; also referred to as specific language impairment) experience a significant deficit in language ability that is longstanding and harmful to the children's academic, social, and eventual economic wellbeing. Word learning is one of the principal weaknesses in these children. This project focuses on the word learning abilities of four- and five-year-old children with DLD. The goal of the project is to build on the investigators' previous work to determine whether, as has been found thus far, special benefits accrue when these children must frequently recall newly introduced words during the course of learning. The focus of the current study is verb-learning. The goal of the study is to increase children's absolute levels of learning while maintaining the advantage that repeated retrieval holds over comparison methods of learning.
The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of an interactive parent-child book reading intervention. The intervention includes two components: the provision of five children's books to parent-child dyads and information about how to practice interactive book reading. The investigators expect to find an effect of this intervention on a) infants' expressive vocabulary, b) reading activity, c) parental expectations and knowledge about language development and d) parental use of interactive book reading strategies.
This study will examine the feasibility of implementing a virtual bilingual health-focused family literacy program.
This study evaluates feasibility and efficacy of adding the LENA Home program to the standard Every Child Succeeds (ECS) home visiting curriculum. Half of the participants will receive the standard ECS curriculum during normally scheduled home visits, while the other half will receive this plus LENA Home.
The purpose of the proposed study is to determine the efficacy of an eight-module interactive, online multi-media professional development course on our target population: individuals over the age of 18, who have no more than a bachelor's degree, and are employed as early childhood educators of children between the ages of 0 and 3. Outcomes of interest include changing caregiver knowledge and beliefs about child development, and encouraging the use of strategies provided to strengthen early learning environments. The investigators will also measure how participants interact with the online course in order to determine which features help and hinder the online professional development process. The investigators hypothesize that the TMW-ECE intervention will be effective in improving educator beliefs and knowledge of their role in children's foundational brain development, and increasing the frequency of behaviors that are known to support children's language and cognitive development among our target population.
To assess whether a musical intervention (maternal/paternal singing) during the skin-to-skin sessions (Kangaroo care) would improve the language development of the preterm infant. Infants will be randomized to singing or silence during the Kangaroo care from the age corresponding to 30th gestational week until term age (40 gestational weeks).
After development of the Talk Stem Familia (TSF) smart-speaker application prototype, the study will evaluate the prototype's efficacy in a within-subjects pre-post design study. The sample will contain 50 parent-student/child dyads who will use the Alexa skill app for 6 weeks.
This is a randomized control trial to evaluate a simple language intervention curriculum that utilizes LENA recordings, linguistic feedback and text-message review of content to improve language environments and outcomes for infants with adolescent mothers.
The purpose of the proposed research is to perform testing of the Thirty Million Words Newborn Initiative (TMW-NI) with the primary goal of evaluating various implementation methods. The investigators hypothesize that the TMW-Newborn intervention will: 1. Significantly impact parent knowledge regarding the importance of universal newborn hearing screen (UNHS) follow-up 2. Significantly impact parent knowledge of child development Additionally,the investigators hypothesize that: 3. The 7-minute version of the video with questions interspersed will most significantly improve parent knowledge of child development 4. There will be no significant differences in effectiveness of the Spanish and English versions of the TMW-Newborn intervention The hypotheses rely on the existing research data supporting the idea that parental understanding and beliefs will alter parental behavior, and consequently, that increased parental linguistic input will impact child cognitive development.
The aim of this project is to evaluate whether Beanstalk's 'Story Starters' intervention is effective in boosting vocabulary and grammatical development in young children.