Longitudinal effects of group music instruction on literacy skills in low-income children

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  Slater, Jessica ^a   Strait, Dana L ^a,b   Skoe, Erika ^a,c   O'Connell, Samantha ^a,d   Thompson, Elaine ^a   Kraus, Nina ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREER; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD LITERACY DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MUSIC; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SKILL; SOCIOECONOMICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MULTILINGUALISM; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGY;

CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MULTILINGUALISM; MUSIC; POVERTY;

EID: 84912139545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113383     Document Type: Article

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