Supporting Children's School Readiness.

NCT02854462 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: R/139470-11-1-INFERENCE
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 100
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The aim of this project is to test whether training parents to ask their children 'inference- eliciting' questions during book reading is effective in promoting story comprehension for 4-year-olds from a range of socio-economic backgrounds.

Conditions

Language Development

Keywords

Language Development; Shared Picture Book reading; Preschoolers; Inference making

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Change after 4 weeks in children's ability to answer inference questions.

  An age-appropriate test of inferencing ability has been developed for this study including vignettes developed by the Language and Reading Research Consortium. Children listen to short vignettes and are then asked questions that require them to make local and global inferences based on the information in the stories.

  Baseline: when child is 4 years 3 months. Post test: 4 weeks post intervention

Secondary Outcomes (1)

• Change in NFER baseline assessment

  Baseline: when child is 4 years 3 months - 4 years 6 months. Post test: 4 weeks post intervention

Study Arms (2)

Language comprehension intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

The intervention will run for 4 weeks. Caregivers will be provided with storybooks (e.g., Percy the Park Keeper) that have been amended to include inference-eliciting questions. Caregivers will be trained (with a video) to ask these questions and respond to their children's answers during shared reading sessions. They will be asked to read one book per day. Caregivers will keep a reading diary.

Behavioral: Language comprehension intervention

Counting intervention

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The intervention will run for 4 weeks. Caregivers will be provided with a book 'At home with counting' that is made up of age appropriate maths exercises. Caregivers will trained (with a video) to work through one page of the book per day. This should take the same amount of time as the activity in the language intervention condition. Caregivers will keep a counting diary.

Behavioral: Counting intervention

Interventions

Language comprehension intervention BEHAVIORAL

Language comprehension intervention

Counting intervention BEHAVIORAL

Counting intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 50 Months - 56 Months
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• Children are:
• First born Full term (i.e. born no more than 3 weeks prematurely) With birth weight over 2.5 kg Being raised as monolingual English speakers

You may not qualify if:

• Neither caregivers nor infants have any significant known physical, mental or learning disability.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University of Sheffield: lead
• University of Leeds: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

University of Sheffield

Sheffield, South Yorkshire, S10 2TN, United Kingdom

Location

Study Officials

• Danielle E Matthews, PhD

  University of Sheffield

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

• Catherine Davies, PhD

  University of Leeds

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: TRIPLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT, CARE PROVIDER, INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Reader in Cognitive Development

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: July 27, 2016
• First Posted: August 3, 2016
• Study Start: August 10, 2016
• Primary Completion: March 20, 2018
• Study Completion: March 22, 2018
• Last Updated: May 4, 2018

Record last verified: 2018-05

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will share

Locations

GB (1)