Teaching by listening: The importance of adult-child conversations to language development

Pediatrics

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 342-349

  Zimmerman, Frederick J ^a   Gilkerson, Jill ^b   Richards, Jeffrey A ^b   Christakis, Dimitri A ^c   Xu, Dongxin ^b   Gray, Sharmistha ^b   Yapanel, Umit ^b  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES   (United States)

^b LENA Foundation   (United States)

^c SEATTLE CHILDREN S RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Language development; Reading; Television

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONVERSATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FAMILY; GROUPS BY AGE; HOME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN RELATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; TELEVISION VIEWING; TODDLER; UNITED STATES; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; TELEVISION;

EID: 67649608024     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2008-2267     Document Type: Article

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