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Barratt-Pugh, Caroline; Maloney, Carmel – Issues in Educational Research, 2015
This paper investigates the implementation and outcomes of "Growing Better Beginnings": a family literacy program for four and five year olds. The program builds on "Better Beginnings: Birth to Three" launched in 2005. Parents, teachers and librarians were surveyed and interviewed to ascertain their perceptions of the program.…
Descriptors: Family Literacy, Preschool Children, Child Development, Parent Surveys
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Kelly, Kimberly Reynolds; Bailey, Alison L. – Merrill-Palmer Quarterly: Journal of Developmental Psychology, 2013
We investigated longitudinally the co-constructed narratives of 31 mother-child dyads collected when the children were 3-, 4-, and 5-years old, examining the dual development of child conversational and narrative discourse skills and the impact of maternal verbal assistance. Linear mixed-model analysis revealed that children's developmental…
Descriptors: Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Child Development
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Cramér-Wolrath, Emelie – Deafness and Education International, 2013
Most deaf children are born to hearing families. During the last twenty years deaf children, in increasing numbers and at an early age, receive a cochlear implant, a highly technological hearing device. The aim of this qualitative, longitudinal, single-case study was to explore and describe critical changes in naturalistic, video-observed…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Deafness, Assistive Technology