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Dowdall, Nicholas; Melendez-Torres, G. J.; Murray, Lynne; Gardner, Frances; Hartford, Leila; Cooper, Peter J. – Child Development, 2020
Interventions that train parents to share picture books with children are seen as a strategy for supporting child language development. We conducted meta-analyses using robust variance estimation modeling on results from 19 RCTs (N[subscript total] = 2,594; M[subscript child age] = 1-6 years). Overall, book-sharing interventions had a small sized…
Descriptors: Intervention, Picture Books, Child Language, Language Acquisition
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Barenboim, Carl – Child Development, 1981
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Children, Expressive Language
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Cunningham, Charles E.; And Others – Child Development, 1985
Addressing methodological limitations, Study One compared parent-child interactions of normal and language-delayed children; Study Two investigated whether mothers adjust the length of their utterances to the child's ability to comprehend or to produce language; Study Three probed interactional variables associated with variations in the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Comprehension