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ERIC Number: EJ228615
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1980-Jun
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Teaching Parents a Strategy for Enhancing Infant Development.
Metzl, Marilyn Newman
Child Development, v51 n2 p583-86 Jun 1980
Normal, first-born children of two-parent, self-supporting families (N=60) were divided into three groups at birth: control, mothers receiving a specific language stimulation program, and both parents receiving the program simultaneously. Infants whose parents received simultaneous training exhibited the greatest gain over 4 1/2 months in Bayley Mental Standard Scores. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Family Environment, Infants, Intellectual Development, Intervention, Language Acquisition, Language Enrichment, Middle Class Parents, Parents, Training
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Bayley Scales of Infant Development; Situational Variables; The HOME Inventory