Contributions of mother-child Storybook telling and joint writing to literacy development in kindergartners with hearing loss

Language, Speech, and Hearing Services in Schools

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 209-223

  Aram, Dorit ^a   Most, Tova ^a   Mayafit, Hanny ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Children with hearing loss; Early literacy; Parental mediation; Storybook telling; Writing interactions

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIDEORECORDING; WRITING;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PARENTING; VERBAL LEARNING; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VOCABULARY; WRITING;

EID: 33747452773     PISSN: 01611461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/0161-1461(2006/023)     Document Type: Article

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