Developing Early Literacy - A report from the National Early Literacy Panel.
Chapter 5 - Impact of home and parent programs on young children's early literacy skills.
The report acknowledges the paucity of studies that actually have any size, rigor, or longitudinal consistency and therefore hedges its conclusions. It nonetheless affirms (emphasis added):
Chapter 5 - Impact of home and parent programs on young children's early literacy skills.
The report acknowledges the paucity of studies that actually have any size, rigor, or longitudinal consistency and therefore hedges its conclusions. It nonetheless affirms (emphasis added):
Results from this meta-analysis of the impacts of home and parent programs on the literacy skills of young children indicate that these interventions yield a moderate to large effect on oral language outcomes and general cognitive abilities. These effects appear to be robust to variations in children’s ages and demographic characteristics of families. Additionally, the effects of these programs on children’s oral language skills were consistent across measures of simple vocabulary and measures of more complex oral language skills.
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