Predictors and outcomes of low-income fathers' reading with their toddlers

Early Childhood Research Quarterly

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 351-365

  Duursma, Elisabeth ^a   Pan, Barbara Alexander ^a   Raikes, Helen ^b  

^a HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Bookreading; Cognitive development; Early Head Start; Fathers; Language development; Low income families

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949107029     PISSN: 08852006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecresq.2008.06.001     Document Type: Article

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