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The Treatment Efficacy of Multiple Opposition Phonological Approach via Telepractice for Two Children with Severe Phonological Disorders in Rural Areas of West Texas in the USA
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Lee, Sue Ann S. – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2018
The goals of the present study were to (1) examine the effects of the multiple opposition phonological approach on improving phoneme production accuracy in children with severe phonological disorders and (2) explore whether the multiple opposition approach is feasible for the telepractice service delivery model. A multiple-baseline,…
Descriptors: Outcomes of Treatment, Young Children, Phonology, Speech Impairments
Relative Effects of a Comprehensive versus Reduced Training for Head Start Teachers Who Serve Spanish-Speaking English Learners
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Solari, Emily J.; Zucker, Tricia A.; Landry, Susan H.; Williams, Jeffrey M. – Early Education and Development, 2016
With increased demand for improved early childhood education services, it is important to better understand the essential professional development resources that have the greatest impact on both teacher and child outcomes. This study compared the effectiveness of two teacher-training models in bilingual Migrant and Seasonal Head Start and Head…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Preschool Teachers, Early Childhood Education, Training Methods
Latino Maternal Literacy Beliefs and Practices Mediating Socioeconomic Status and Maternal Education Effects in Predicting Child Receptive Vocabulary
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Gonzalez, Jorge E.; Acosta, Sandra; Davis, Heather; Pollard-Durodola, Sharolyn; Saenz, Laura; Soares, Denise; Resendez, Nora; Zhu, Leina – Early Education and Development, 2017
Research Findings: This study investigated the association between Mexican American maternal education and socioeconomic status (SES) and child vocabulary as mediated by parental reading beliefs, home literacy environment (HLE), and parent-child shared reading frequency. As part of a larger study, maternal reports of education level, SES, HLE, and…
Descriptors: Hispanic American Students, Socioeconomic Status, Literacy, Beliefs
Researching Transfronterizo Literacies in Texas Border Colonias
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Smith, Patrick H.; Murillo, Luz A. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2012
This study examines literacies practiced in bilingual households located in emerging communities along the Texas-Mexico border known as border colonias. Drawing on theoretical notions of space as geographic and temporal, the simultaneity of global and local forces at work in colonias, and expressions of agency that are "in between"…
Descriptors: Mexican Americans, Bilingualism, Child Language, Human Capital
Outstanding Dissertations in Bilingual Education, Recognized by the National Advisory Council on Bilingual Education, 1979.
National Clearinghouse for Bilingual Education, Arlington, VA. – 1980
The following award-winning dissertations in bilingual education are included here: (1) "The 1974 Bilingual Education Amendments: Revolution, Reaction, or Reform" by Susan Gilbert Schneider; (2) "(Memory Organization, Bilingualism, and Interlingual Interference: A Comparative Analysis of the Semantic Distance and Semantic Judgment…
Descriptors: American Indians, Auditory Discrimination, Bilingual Education, Bilingualism
The Acquisition of Questions in Texas Spanish: Age 2 - Age 5.
Gonzalez, Gustavo – 1973
To determine the normal sequence of the development of Spanish phonology and Spanish grammatical patterns in the speech of native Spanish speakers, ages 2-5, a study of the acquisition of interrogative formation was undertaken. Two male and two females from each of nine age intervals between two and five were selected as informants; all were…
Descriptors: Child Language, Language Acquisition, Linguistic Performance, Native Speakers