The impact of dialogic book-sharing training on infant language and attention: a randomized controlled trial in a deprived South African community

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 865-873

  Vally, Zahir ^a   Murray, Lynne ^a,b   Tomlinson, Mark ^b   Cooper, Peter J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

attention; book sharing; Dialogic; language

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ATTENTION; BOOK; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOTHER; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PSYCHOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADULT; ATTENTION; BOOKS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOTHERS; POVERTY; READING; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84936890182     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12352     Document Type: Article

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