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Direct linkSoto, Xigrid; Seven, Yagmur; McKenna, Meaghan; Madsen, Keri; Peters-Sanders, Lindsey; Kelley, Elizabeth Spencer; Goldstein, Howard – Grantee Submission, 2020
Purpose: This paper describes the iterative development of a home review program designed to augment vocabulary instruction for young children (ages 4 and 5) occurring at school through the use of a home review component. Method: A pilot study followed by two experiments used adapted alternating treatment designs to compare the learning of…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Vocabulary Development, Validity, Comparative Analysis
Suhy, Thom – Online Submission, 2014
During the summer of 2014, Austin ISD's Department of English Language Learners provided guided language acquisition design (Project GLAD) training to 33 district teachers. Teachers from two AISD campuses were selected to participate in the district's pilot of the Project GLAD program. This report summarizes Fall 2014 survey responses from the 33…
Descriptors: School Districts, Second Language Instruction, Language Teachers, Middle School Teachers
Zhang, Yiwen; Xu, Xiaojuan; Jiang, Fan; Gilkerson, Jill; Xu, Dongxin; Richards, Jeffrey A.; Harnsberger, James; Topping, Keith J. – Communication Disorders Quarterly, 2015
Changes in natural language environments of families receiving quantitative language feedback in Shanghai were investigated. Volunteer parents of 22 children aged 5 to 30 months were recruited from a hospital and a learning center. Quantitative measures of adult word count and conversational turns with children were collected regularly over 6…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Child Caregivers, Young Children, Parent Child Relationship
McDuffie, Andrea; Machalicek, Wendy; Oakes, Ashley; Haebig, Eileen; Weismer, Susan Ellis; Abbeduto, Leonard – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2013
Maternal verbal responsiveness in naturally occurring interactions is known to facilitate language development for children with neurodevelopmental disorders. The present study used a series of A-B replications to examine proximal effects of a naturalistic language intervention on the use of specific language support strategies by mothers of eight…
Descriptors: Videoconferencing, Early Intervention, Language Acquisition, Mothers
Catt, Merrill; Neeley, Richard A.; Lovins, Shelby – Education, 2011
This pilot study investigated the effectiveness of using a thematic intervention approach for children with language disorders. Twenty students receiving language therapy at a university speech and hearing clinic were selected as participants in this pilot study. This pilot project was entitled the REAL Project with the term REAL being an acronym…
Descriptors: Program Effectiveness, Intervention, Therapy, Pilot Projects
Cunningham, Grover; Pierce-Jones, John – 1969
A 3-month pilot project was undertaken at the University of Texas to gain experience in administering the Cynthia Buchanan Language Program (Buchanan, 1967) and to test its effectiveness in making meaningful changes in the language development of disadvantaged Mexican-American preschoolers. A group of 114 Mexican-American children were chosen as…
Descriptors: Compensatory Education, Experimental Programs, Language Acquisition, Mexican Americans
Hallam, Rena; Grisham-Brown, Jennifer; Gao, Xin; Brookshire, Robyn – Early Childhood Research & Practice, 2007
Twenty-six Head Start preschool classrooms participated in a yearlong intervention designed to link the Head Start Child Outcomes Framework with authentic assessment practices. Teachers in intervention and pilot classrooms implemented an assessment approach that incorporated the use of a curriculum-based assessment tool, the development of…
Descriptors: Performance Based Assessment, Preschool Children, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
