학술논문
Enhancing early language and literacy skills for racial/ethnic minority children with low incomes through a randomized clinical trial: The mediating role of cognitively stimulating parent–child interactions.
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Article
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Subject
*EMERGENT literacy
*CHILDREN of minorities
*PARENT-child relationships
*RACIAL minorities
*PARENTING
*POOR children
*READINESS for school
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ISSN
0009-3920
Abstract
Parenting is a critical mediator of children's school readiness. In line with this theory of change, data from the randomized clinical trial of Smart Beginnings (tiered Video Interaction Project and Family Check‐Up; N = 403, treatment arm n = 201) were used to examine treatment impacts on early language and literacy skills at child age 4 years (nLatinx = 168, nBlack = 198, nMale = 203), as well as indirect impacts through parental support of cognitive stimulation at child age 2 years. Although results did not reveal direct effects on children's early skills, there were significant indirect effects for early literacy (β =.03, p =.05) and early language (β =.04, p =.04) via improvements in parental cognitive stimulation. Implications for interventions targeting parenting to improve children's school readiness beginning at birth are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]