Accelerating Early Language Development with Multi-Sensory Training

Autor/inn/en	Bjorn, Piia M.; Kakkuri, Irma; Karvonen, Pirkko; Leppanen, Paavo H. T.
Titel	Accelerating Early Language Development with Multi-Sensory Training
Quelle	In: Early Child Development and Care, 182 (2012) 3-4, S.435-451 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0300-4430
DOI	10.1080/03004430.2011.646716
Schlagwörter	Intervention; Expressive Language; Receptive Language; Stimulation; Language Skills; Sensory Training; Language Acquisition; Infants; Mothers; Child Language; Thinking Skills; Parent Child Relationship; Early Childhood Education; Stimuli; Young Children; Statistical Analysis; Experimental Groups; Rhyme; Control Groups; Pretests Posttests + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Rezeptive Kommunikationsfähigkeit; Language skill; Sprachkompetenz; Sensorische Erziehung; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Mother; Mutter; 'Children''s language'; Kindersprache; Denkfähigkeit; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Early childhood; Education; Frühkindliche Bildung; Frühpädagogik; Anreizsystem; Frühe Kindheit; Statistische Analyse; Reim
Abstract	This paper reports the outcome of a multi-sensory intervention on infant language skills. A programme titled "Rhyming Game and Exercise Club", which included kinaesthetic-tactile mother-child rhyming games performed in natural joint attention situations, was intended to accelerate Finnish six- to eight-month-old infants' language development. The participants were 20 infants (10 training group children and 10 control children). Their cognitive skills and both receptive and expressive language skills (Bayley Scales III) were tested three times (pre-, post- and follow-up assessments). The groups differed significantly in receptive language skills at the baseline, in favour of the controls. The results showed that the performance of the training group children in cognition and receptive language increased after the intervention. The training group girls showed more acceleration in receptive language skills than the boys. The results suggested that training consisting of rhyming games and kinaesthetic-tactile stimulation is a useful tool for accelerating early language development and for enriching mother-child interaction. (Contains 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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