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Effective Elements of Literacy Intervention: Book, Talk, or Both?
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2002;156:518-519.
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Clinic-based literacy interventions have been shown to increase parent-child
book-sharing activities.1-3
These interventions typically include 2 major components: counseling parents
to read to children and dispensing a children's book.4
No studies have examined which of the 2 components is the more powerful element
of the intervention.
We describe a pilot study to determine the effect of each component
of a literacy intervention on parent-child book sharing activities. We hypothesized
that book-sharing activities would be greater for parents receiving both counseling
and a book than for parents receiving counseling but no book. A bilingual
research assistant enrolled a consecutive sample of parents of 7- to 15-month-old
children coming to an inner-city health center during August 2000. Parents
were invited to participate in a study to help the clinic provide better services
for children. Seventy-three eligible parents were enrolled; there were no
refusals.
We used alternate-day selection to assign participants to 3 . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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