The effects of a brief intervention at home based on shared reading to promote children's oral language.
Camila Domeniconi, Marta Gràcia, Priscila Benitez
PMID 39841739WHAT IT FOUND
Mothers who received brief shared-reading guidance used more language strategies, and their children showed higher scores after the sessions.
This small study cannot show the guidance caused the gains.
Key findings
01All mothers used more strategies to teach oral language after the intervention.
02Post-intervention scores on standardized and conversational language measures increased compared with pre-intervention scores.
03In the post-test, mothers used all observed strategies except self-assessment.
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What it does not show
The research design did not allow the intervention's effect to be separated from other activities or normal development. The study included children and their mothers from one state school. Some mothers missed sessions. The self-assessment strategy was not used by any mothers. The children were at an age of typical rapid oral language development.
Declared interests
The only funding statement is financial support from FAPESP.
The easy way to misread this
Do not conclude that brief shared-reading guidance caused the children's language gains. The authors state the design could not separate the intervention from normal development or other activities.