Does Improving Joint Attention in Low-Quality Child-Care Enhance Language Development?

Autor/inn/en	Rudd, Loretta C.; Cain, David W.; Saxon, Terrill F.
Titel	Does Improving Joint Attention in Low-Quality Child-Care Enhance Language Development?
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 178 (2008) 3, S.315-338 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
Schlagwörter	Attention; Professional Development; Caregiver Training; Child Caregivers; Toddlers; Language Acquisition; Caregiver Child Relationship; Infant Toddler Environment Rating Scale; MacArthur Communicative Development Inventory + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeit; Caregiver; Caregivers; Carer; Child; Children; Kinderbetreuung; Infant; Infants; Toddler; Kleinkind; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb
Abstract	This study examined effects of professional development for child-care staff on language acquisition of children ages 14-36 months. Child-care staff from 44 child-care centres agreed to participate in the study. Child-care staff from one-half of the child-care centres were randomly assigned to a one-time, four-hour workshop followed by three classroom visits over the subsequent three months. This treatment was designed to increase frequency and quality of joint attention episodes between the child-care staff and the toddlers. Child-care staff from the remaining 22 centres were assigned to a wait-list control group. Toddlers (N = 121) in both the groups (n[subscript treatment] = 64; n[subscript control] = 57) were assessed with a measure of language acquisition after six months. While there were no significant differences on total language acquisition between groups, treatment group toddlers whose child-care providers engaged in more frequent and longer bouts of joint attention acquired more language. The results of this study support that when child-care staff engage in longer and higher quality bouts of joint attention with toddlers they can affect language acquisition. (Contains 1 figure and 6 tables.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10