Using a multisensory storytelling approach to improve language and comprehension: A pilot study

Tactile object boxes, object walks, and object experience books are common practices that are recommended for children with visual impairment to promote language development and early literacy skills. However, there is limited research on the effectiveness of these practices leading to variations of how these practices are implemented in the classrooms. This pilot study examined the effectiveness of a multisensory storytelling approach on listening comprehension and language use in three bilingual children with visual impairment. The results suggest that the multisensory storytelling approach is a promising intervention for children with visual impairment in increasing their language skills but there were differential effects based on child characteristic differences. Implications for practice and directions for future research toward language assessments and implementation of the multisensory storytelling approached are discussed.

ABOUT THE WAY AND THE "TWO VOICES" IN THE POETIC WORLD OF IVAN TSANEV

The text is a synthesized literary-historical touch, introducing into the nature of one of the most contributing contemporary Bulgarian poets. Which is a humanism-apology of the human and the complete man, and the poetic language in the books for children and for the “adults” is two sides of the indivisible creative development. With the lyrical subject of the “big world” the real entry into the poetic essence, reached in the children’s books, is prepared. And what cannot be called by the voice of the “big man” is already possible by the voice of the “child/ characteristic of the child.” There the achieved peace was achieved, the existential, tragic loss was overcome. The ideological and aesthetic creative integrity has been achieved simultaneously with the rounded double-headedness of this dualistic lyrical duet.

Child characteristics and maternal speech

ABSTRACTInfant temperament characteristics of activity level, task persistence and affect were measured in an eight-month longitudinal study of eight children. Discourse and pragmatic features of their mothers' speech, specifically total number of utterances and use of self-repetitions, directives and attention-getting devices, were also monitored. Pearson correlation analysis suggested complex interactions between maternal speech and infant temperament. In some cases a maternal speech pattern appears to maintain an infant temperament characteristic. In others, a child characteristic appears to maintain a maternal speech form. The results are used to argue that non-linguistic child behaviours may influence maternal speech and deserve further attention in investigations of the link between maternal speech and child-language development.