A Parent-Implemented Language Intervention for Late Talkers: An Exploratory Study on Low-Risk Preterm and Full-Term Children

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Arianna Bello¹  Alessandra Sansavini²  Annalisa Guarini²  Mariagrazia Zuccarini²  Chiara Suttora²  MariaCristina Caselli³  Luigi Corvaglia⁴  Arianna Aceti⁴ 

[1] Department of Education, Roma Tre University, 00154 Rome, Italy;Department of Psychology “Renzo Canestrari”, University of Bologna, 40127 Bologna, Italy;Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, 00185 Rome, Italy;Neonatology and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, S. Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, 40138 Bologna, Italy;

关键词: parent-implemented intervention;    expressive language delay;    low-risk preterm children;    late talkers;    MB-CDI;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph17239123

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Parent-implemented language interventions have been used for children with expressive language delays, but no study has yet been carried out using this intervention for low-risk preterm children. The current study examined the effect of a parent-implemented dialogic book reading intervention, determining also whether the intervention differently impacted low-risk preterm and full-term children. Fifty 31-month-old late talkers with their parents participated; 27 late talkers constituted the intervention group, and 23 constituted the control group. The overall results indicated that more children in the intervention group showed partial or full recovery of their lexical expressive delay and acquired the ability to produce complete sentences relative to the control group. Concerning full-term late talkers, those in the intervention group showed a higher daily growth rate of total words, nouns, function words, and complete sentences, and more children began to produce complete sentences relative to those in the control group. Concerning low-risk preterm late talkers, children in the intervention group increased their ability to produce complete sentences more than those in the control group. We conclude that a parent-focused intervention may be an effective, ecological, and cost-effective program for improving expressive lexical and syntactic skills of full-term and low-risk preterm late talkers, calling for further studies in late talkers with biological vulnerabilities.

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