A Pilot Study of Contemplative Practices with Economically Disadvantaged Preschoolers: Children’s Empathic and Self-Regulatory Behaviors

Twenty economically disadvantaged preschoolers (mean age 3;7) were randomly assigned to an intervention or a control group, and their mothers' styles of eliciting narratives from their children were assessed before and after intervention. Mothers of intervention children were encouraged to spend more time in narrative conversation, ask more open-ended and context-eliciting questions, and encourage longer narratives through back-channel responses. Children's narrative and vocabulary skills were assessed before and after the year-long intervention and 14 children participated in a follow-up assessment a year later. Narrative measures included the number and length of narratives as well as how decontextualized and informative they were. Intervention children showed significant vocabulary improvement immediately after intervention terminated, and a year later they showed overall improvements in narrative skill. In particular, intervention children produced more context-setting descriptions about where and especially when the described events took place. Such decontextualized language has been emphasized as important for literacy acquisition.

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Economically disadvantaged preschoolers: Ready to learn but further to go.

Developmental Psychology ◽

10.1037/0012-1649.33.4.711 ◽

1997 ◽

Vol 33 (4) ◽

pp. 711-723 ◽

Cited By ~ 133

Author(s):

Deborah J. Stipek ◽

Rosaleen H. Ryan

Keyword(s):

Economically Disadvantaged ◽

Ready To Learn ◽

Disadvantaged Preschoolers

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Pilot study on criteria in cavity preparation-facts or artifacts?

Journal of Dental Education ◽

10.1002/j.0022-0337.1973.37.11.tb00753.x ◽

1973 ◽

Vol 37 (11) ◽

pp. 27-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

G Salvendy ◽

WM Hinton ◽

GW Ferguson ◽

PR Cunningham

Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Cavity Preparation

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Assessing manual dexterity: pilot study of a new instrument

Journal of Dental Education ◽

10.1002/j.0022-0337.1981.45.2.tb01432.x ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 45 (2) ◽

pp. 71-73 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

P Weinstein ◽

HA Kiyak

Keyword(s):

Pilot Study ◽

Manual Dexterity ◽

New Instrument

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A Pilot Study of Early Storybook Reading With Babies With Hearing Loss

Journal of Speech Language and Hearing Research ◽

10.1044/2019_jslhr-l-17-0305 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 62 (9) ◽

pp. 3397-3412

Author(s):

Michelle I. Brown ◽

David Trembath ◽

Marleen F. Westerveld ◽

Gail T. Gillon

Keyword(s):

Hearing Loss ◽

Pilot Study ◽

Visual Analysis ◽

Single Case ◽

Eye Contact ◽

Preliminary Evidence ◽

Storybook Reading ◽

Book Selection ◽

Turn Taking ◽

Parent Child

Purpose This pilot study explored the effectiveness of an early storybook reading (ESR) intervention for parents with babies with hearing loss (HL) for improving (a) parents' book selection skills, (b) parent–child eye contact, and (c) parent–child turn-taking. Advancing research into ESR, this study examined whether the benefits from an ESR intervention reported for babies without HL were also observed in babies with HL. Method Four mother–baby dyads participated in a multiple baseline single-case experimental design across behaviors. Treatment effects for parents' book selection skills, parent–child eye contact, and parent–child turn-taking were examined using visual analysis and Tau-U analysis. Results Statistically significant increases, with large to very large effect sizes, were observed for all 4 participants for parent–child eye contact and parent–child turn-taking. Limited improvements with ceiling effects were observed for parents' book selection skills. Conclusion The findings provide preliminary evidence for the effectiveness of an ESR intervention for babies with HL for promoting parent–child interactions through eye contact and turn-taking.

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