TY - JOUR
T1 - Routine Language Intervention
T2 - Supporting Spanish-Speaking Mothers’ Talk to Toddlers During Everyday Routines
AU - Masek, Lillian R.
AU - Mendelsohn, Alexandra
AU - Escobar, Kelly
AU - Tamis-LeMonda, Catherine S.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - SYNOPSIS: Objective. Toddlers learn language as they participate in everyday routines in the home environment. The Routine Language Intervention encourages caregivers to infuse language in everyday routines to support toddlers’ language development. Design. Researchers collaborated with a Spanish-speaking, immigrant community in New York City to develop an intervention that is grounded in the routines that mothers commonly engage in with their toddlers. Altogether, 51 mothers participated in 6 months of group workshops and home visits. To test the efficacy of the intervention, mothers were videorecorded interacting with their toddlers at home before and after participating in the intervention. A comparison group of 12 families drawn from the same community was also videorecorded in their homes. Results. Mothers who participated in the Routine Language Intervention increased their speech to toddlers, nearly doubling word tokens and word types, and used more types and tokens than mothers in the matched comparison group. Increases in maternal speech were seen for words referring to targeted daily routines (e.g., mealtime, grooming, play and literacy) and extended to other words (e.g., unrelated household objects). Conclusions. Routine Language offers a culturally sensitive, easy-to-implement intervention that builds on families’ everyday routines and yields benefits for toddlers’ early language exposure.
AB - SYNOPSIS: Objective. Toddlers learn language as they participate in everyday routines in the home environment. The Routine Language Intervention encourages caregivers to infuse language in everyday routines to support toddlers’ language development. Design. Researchers collaborated with a Spanish-speaking, immigrant community in New York City to develop an intervention that is grounded in the routines that mothers commonly engage in with their toddlers. Altogether, 51 mothers participated in 6 months of group workshops and home visits. To test the efficacy of the intervention, mothers were videorecorded interacting with their toddlers at home before and after participating in the intervention. A comparison group of 12 families drawn from the same community was also videorecorded in their homes. Results. Mothers who participated in the Routine Language Intervention increased their speech to toddlers, nearly doubling word tokens and word types, and used more types and tokens than mothers in the matched comparison group. Increases in maternal speech were seen for words referring to targeted daily routines (e.g., mealtime, grooming, play and literacy) and extended to other words (e.g., unrelated household objects). Conclusions. Routine Language offers a culturally sensitive, easy-to-implement intervention that builds on families’ everyday routines and yields benefits for toddlers’ early language exposure.
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U2 - 10.1080/15295192.2024.2390359
DO - 10.1080/15295192.2024.2390359
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85204103784
SN - 1529-5192
VL - 24
SP - 119
EP - 143
JO - Parenting
JF - Parenting
IS - 4
ER -