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Mol, Suzanne E.; Neuman, Susan B.; Strouse, Gabrielle A. – Early Child Development and Care, 2014
The very definition of print exposure has evolved in recent years as has the production of new media for infants and toddlers. Recognising that parents now have a confluence of media to select from, our study was designed to provide a richer understanding of home-literacy environments among 100 infants. Three profiles of families' home media…
Descriptors: Infants, Printed Materials, Parents, Parent Participation
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Iluz, Reli; Adi-Japha, Esther; Klein, Pnina S. – Early Education and Development, 2016
Research Findings: Early child care policy and practice are grounded in a growing understanding of the importance of the first years of life. In earlier studies, associations between child-staff ratios and peer skills yielded inconsistent findings. The current study used data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study…
Descriptors: Teacher Student Ratio, Skill Development, Peer Relationship, Young Children
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Peredo, Tatiana Nogueira; Owen, Margaret Tresch; Rojas, Raúl; Caughy, Margaret O'Brien – Early Education and Development, 2015
Research Findings: The roles of child lexical diversity and maternal sensitivity in the development of young children's inhibitory control were examined in 100 low-income Hispanic Spanish-speaking children. Child communication utterances at age 2½ years were transcribed from 10-min mother-child interactions to quantify lexical diversity. Maternal…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Mothers, Parent Influence, Young Children
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Neuman, Susan B.; Kaefer, Tanya; Pinkham, Ashley; Strouse, Gabrielle – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Targeted to children as young as 3 months old, there is a growing number of baby media products that claim to teach babies to read. This randomized controlled trial was designed to examine this claim by investigating the effects of a best-selling baby media product on reading development. One hundred and seventeen infants, ages 9 to 18 months,…
Descriptors: Infants, Reading Instruction, Comparative Analysis, Experimental Groups
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Dunston, Yolanda L.; Patterson, Gerrelyn C.; Daniels, Kisha N. – Journal of Language and Literacy Education, 2010
This study explored the feedback provided by sixty African American mothers as they listened to their first grade children read aloud from a grade level text. Maternal feedback fell into two distinct groups. Children with higher oral reading accuracy levels on the text had mothers who more frequently waited and permitted opportunities for the…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, African American Students, Mothers