Effect of Foster Care on Language Learning at Eight Years: Findings from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project

Autor/inn/en	Windsor, Jennifer; Moraru, Ana; Nelson, Charles A., III.; Fox, Nathan A.; Zeanah, Charles H.
Titel	Effect of Foster Care on Language Learning at Eight Years: Findings from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project
Quelle	In: Journal of Child Language, 40 (2013) 3, S.605-627 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0305-0009
DOI	10.1017/S0305000912000177
Schlagwörter	Foster Care; Language Acquisition; Early Intervention; Residential Institutions; Control Groups; Experimental Groups; Placement; Child Language; Cohort Analysis; Program Effectiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pflegehilfe; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Wohnumgebung; Betriebspraktikum; Praktikum; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Kohortenanalyse
Abstract	This study reports on language outcomes at eight years from the Bucharest Early Intervention Project, a randomized controlled study of foster care. We previously have shown that children placed in foster care by age two have substantially stronger preschool language outcomes than children placed later and children remaining in institutional care. One hundred and five children participated in the current study, fifty-four originally assigned to foster care and fifty-one to continued institutional care. Even though current placements varied, children originally in foster care had longer sentences and stronger sentence repetition and written word identification. Children placed in foster care by age two had significant advantages in word identification and nonword repetition; children placed by age 1 ; 3 performed equivalently to community peers. The results show the continuing adverse effects of early poor institutional care on later language development and the key importance of age of placement in a more optimal environment. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10