Language interventions taught to caregivers in homes and classrooms: A review of intervention and implementation fidelity

Publication date: Available online 13 March 2019Source: Early Childhood Research QuarterlyAuthor(s): Christa Haring Biel, Jay Buzhardt, Jennifer A. Brown, Mollie K. Romano, Ciera M. Lorio, Kelly S. Windsor, Louise A. Kaczmarek, Rachel Gwin, Susan S. Sandall, Howard GoldsteinAbstractThe Bridging the Word Gap Research Network conducted a review of literature to identify effective interventions to facilitate the communication development of young children in hopes of identifying ways to reduce the well-documented word gap among children associated with socio-economic class. As part of this effort, we focused on the ways in which caregivers (teachers, parents, and others) were taught to implement evidence-based practices for facilitating language learning and use. Our goal was to characterize (a) the implementation fidelity, to describe the teaching functions and implementation procedures for teaching those language intervention strategies and (b) the intervention fidelity with which caregivers used strategies for facilitating their children’s language development. Because training procedures are not well described in the implementation and professional development literature, a new framework was developed and its feasibility was assessed in an attempt to characterize the teaching functions and specific implementation procedures used across studies. Among the 270 intervention studies reviewed, there were 124 in which caregivers were taught to implement language intervention str...
Source: Early Childhood Research Quarterly - Category: Child Development Source Type: research