Dialogic book sharing: small expense and large effect?

Dialogic book sharing: small expense and large effect?


 Interactive reading with children (dialogic reading) has been shown to have a significant benefit for cognitive development in high-income countries. A paper in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry looks at the effect of a dialogic book sharing program on infant language and attention in an impoverished community in South Africa.

 

In a randomized controlled trial, 91 pairs of caregivers and infants (aged 14-16 months) were assigned to either a training program on dialogic book-sharing or a control group, who received the training 10 weeks later. Assessments were made at the start of the study and immediately after an eight-week training program. Caregivers reported that infants in the intervention group could not only understand and vocalize more words than those in the control group but also made substantially greater gains in measures of sustained attention. 

Johns Hopkins University 

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