Parent Interventionists in Phonodialogic Emergent Reading with Preschool Children Sabra B. Gear O... more Parent Interventionists in Phonodialogic Emergent Reading with Preschool Children Sabra B. Gear Old Dominion University, 2010 Director: Peggy P. Hester, PhD The purpose of this study was to examine an activity-based intervention, dialogic reading with embedded explicit phonological awareness strategies, applied as a preventive approach by parents in their home settings located within a culturally and ethnically diverse urban region. This study investigated the effects of training parents to employ a phonodialogic activity-based emergent reading intervention protocol to increase the phonological awareness skills of their 4and 5-year old children. Helping young children learn phonological awareness skills are vitally important to the development of early reading (Anthony & Lonigan, 2004; Ziolkowski & Goldstein, 2008). This investigation provided an empirical examination of a critical area which has received little experimentation. Though there is ample empirical evidence on the contri...
Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading developing early comprehension layi... more Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading developing early comprehension laying the foundation for reading success is a good habit; you can develop this habit to be such interesting way. Yeah, reading habit will not only make you have any favourite activity. It will be one of guidance of your life. When reading has become a habit, you will not make it as disturbing activities or as boring activity. You can gain many benefits and importances of reading.
The purpose of this article is to describe optimal parent participation in family literacy progra... more The purpose of this article is to describe optimal parent participation in family literacy programs and parent-child literacy interactions, most specifically during interactive reading. Family literacy can be interpreted in many ways, resulting in diverse models of implementation that take place in Head Start programs, community agencies, schools and other venues. Since early literacy starts in the home environment where parents, across cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, want their children to learn successfully, family literacy programs that enhance parent-child interactions can directly assist many parents in supporting their children to become proficient readers. Implementation and outcomes of program activities on children’s early literacy development, and how these activities interact with existing family literacy practices need to be determined through reliable and valid methods. Consequently, this article addresses variables within two inter-related family lit...
High quality, easily accessible professional development is needed to ensure that service provide... more High quality, easily accessible professional development is needed to ensure that service providers are well-qualified to facilitate early intervention (EI) that targets caregiver learning during v...
Adults with intellectual disabilities face difficulty seeking employment in the community workfor... more Adults with intellectual disabilities face difficulty seeking employment in the community workforce. Using a single-subject design, this study examined the utility of role playing and self-management strategies to enhance work performance by promoting the social skills of a young woman with Down syndrome working in a community child care setting. Social behaviors taught included: (a) establishing and maintaining eye contact with adults during conversation, (b) waiting to speak until adults finished speaking, and (c) giving appropriate verbal responses to directions, feedback, or criticism. Results indicated moderate-to-large increases in target behaviors during intervention, with these changes maintained for three months following training. The training protocol was effective in teaching prosocial behaviors which improved work performance. Implications for practice are discussed.
Abstract: Adults with intellectual disabilities face difficulty seeking employment in the communi... more Abstract: Adults with intellectual disabilities face difficulty seeking employment in the community workforce. Using a single-subject design, this study examined the utility of role playing and self-management strategies to enhance work performance by promoting the ...
Parent Interventionists in Phonodialogic Emergent Reading with Preschool Children Sabra B. Gear O... more Parent Interventionists in Phonodialogic Emergent Reading with Preschool Children Sabra B. Gear Old Dominion University, 2010 Director: Peggy P. Hester, PhD The purpose of this study was to examine an activity-based intervention, dialogic reading with embedded explicit phonological awareness strategies, applied as a preventive approach by parents in their home settings located within a culturally and ethnically diverse urban region. This study investigated the effects of training parents to employ a phonodialogic activity-based emergent reading intervention protocol to increase the phonological awareness skills of their 4and 5-year old children. Helping young children learn phonological awareness skills are vitally important to the development of early reading (Anthony & Lonigan, 2004; Ziolkowski & Goldstein, 2008). This investigation provided an empirical examination of a critical area which has received little experimentation. Though there is ample empirical evidence on the contri...
Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading developing early comprehension layi... more Will reading habit influence your life? Many say yes. Reading developing early comprehension laying the foundation for reading success is a good habit; you can develop this habit to be such interesting way. Yeah, reading habit will not only make you have any favourite activity. It will be one of guidance of your life. When reading has become a habit, you will not make it as disturbing activities or as boring activity. You can gain many benefits and importances of reading.
The purpose of this article is to describe optimal parent participation in family literacy progra... more The purpose of this article is to describe optimal parent participation in family literacy programs and parent-child literacy interactions, most specifically during interactive reading. Family literacy can be interpreted in many ways, resulting in diverse models of implementation that take place in Head Start programs, community agencies, schools and other venues. Since early literacy starts in the home environment where parents, across cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds, want their children to learn successfully, family literacy programs that enhance parent-child interactions can directly assist many parents in supporting their children to become proficient readers. Implementation and outcomes of program activities on children’s early literacy development, and how these activities interact with existing family literacy practices need to be determined through reliable and valid methods. Consequently, this article addresses variables within two inter-related family lit...
High quality, easily accessible professional development is needed to ensure that service provide... more High quality, easily accessible professional development is needed to ensure that service providers are well-qualified to facilitate early intervention (EI) that targets caregiver learning during v...
Adults with intellectual disabilities face difficulty seeking employment in the community workfor... more Adults with intellectual disabilities face difficulty seeking employment in the community workforce. Using a single-subject design, this study examined the utility of role playing and self-management strategies to enhance work performance by promoting the social skills of a young woman with Down syndrome working in a community child care setting. Social behaviors taught included: (a) establishing and maintaining eye contact with adults during conversation, (b) waiting to speak until adults finished speaking, and (c) giving appropriate verbal responses to directions, feedback, or criticism. Results indicated moderate-to-large increases in target behaviors during intervention, with these changes maintained for three months following training. The training protocol was effective in teaching prosocial behaviors which improved work performance. Implications for practice are discussed.
Abstract: Adults with intellectual disabilities face difficulty seeking employment in the communi... more Abstract: Adults with intellectual disabilities face difficulty seeking employment in the community workforce. Using a single-subject design, this study examined the utility of role playing and self-management strategies to enhance work performance by promoting the ...
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