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CECIL: Final Report. Coaching Early Conversations, Interaction and Language
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Janet Grauberg – Sutton Trust, 2024
The Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) Project, which started in September 2020, has focused on exploring coaching-led approaches to support the effective implementation of early language interventions, especially in Private, Voluntary & Independent (PVI) settings. At the core of the CECIL approach is a way of…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Foreign Countries, Early Childhood Education, Language Skills
Feasibility and Evaluation of Talk Boost KS2: A School-Based Programme for Oral Language Skills in Children with Low-Average Communication Skills in Key Stage 2
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Reeves, Louisa; Freed, Jenny; Wright, Jonathan; Wood, Elizabeth; Black, Rachael; Hartshorne, Mary; Adams, Catherine – Child Language Teaching and Therapy, 2019
Oral language skills in childhood are known to predict literacy levels and academic performance. Identification of children's low-average oral language skills in school is challenging when clear criteria for developmental language disorder are not met. There are few studies of targeted, school-based oral language interventions for the older child.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Oral Language, Language Skills, Communication Skills
CECIL: Coaching Early Conversations Interaction and Language
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Laura Barbour – Sutton Trust, 2022
This report is a summary document which explains the rationale for the CECIL (Coaching Early Conversations Interaction and Language) project, delivery within the context of COVID-19, the findings, the learnings, and next steps. The Institute for Employment Studies (IES) led an Implementation and Process Evaluation (IPE), and the University of…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), COVID-19, Pandemics, Early Childhood Education
Effects of Quantitative Linguistic Feedback to Caregivers of Young Children: A Pilot Study in China
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Zhang, Yiwen; Xu, Xiaojuan; Jiang, Fan; Gilkerson, Jill; Xu, Dongxin; Richards, Jeffrey A.; Harnsberger, James; Topping, Keith J. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2015
Changes in natural language environments of families receiving quantitative language feedback in Shanghai were investigated. Volunteer parents of 22 children aged 5 to 30 months were recruited from a hospital and a learning center. Quantitative measures of adult word count and conversational turns with children were collected regularly over 6…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Child Caregivers, Young Children, Parent Child Relationship
An Analysis of the Vocabulary and Syntax Development of Preschool Children. Mt. Druitt Early Childhood Project: Project Evaluation Report Number 7.
Belme, Jillian – 1981
The influence of five programs of the Mt. Druitt Early Childhood Project on the development of preschool children's vocabulary and syntactical skills was assessed in a pretest/posttest design. Programs differed in the amount of structure they imposed on the language experiences of the children and in the content they specified. Different measures…
Descriptors: Child Language, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Language Acquisition
Early Intervention Using Simultaneous Communication with Deaf Infants: The Effect on Communication Development.
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Greenberg, Mark T.; And Others – Child Development, 1984
Evaluates a comprehensive intervention program for deaf children under age three in Vancouver, British Columbia. Twelve subjects were compared with a matched sample of children undergoing less-systematic intervention. Results indicated more developmentally mature communication and higher quality interaction in families who had received…
Descriptors: Child Language, Deafness, Foreign Countries, Infants