NIH R01 · 2024
The Role of Fathering in the Language Development Among Young, Low-Income African American and Latino Children Abstract Recent studies of low-income children have revealed significant variations in the quality of parent-child communication as well as the quantity of parent input that are important for successful child language development. Shared aspects of early parent- child communication including joint engagement with symbols and the interaction’s flow predict language outcome above measures of parent verbal input (15) or the child’s joint attention skills. The importance of early joint engagement for language development is demonstrated in diverse race-ethnic groups. However, the…
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