| Description |
xviii, 211 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction. To talk to children in productive ways ; Sample : mothers, toddlers, and the home setting -- A scoring system for everyday caregiver speech acts. Instrument development, units, and recording procedures ; Scoring procedures ; Reliability assessment and methods of data analysis -- Everyday mother speech acts to toddlers : findings. Total-talk scores ; Communication-function category scores, subcategories, and subscores ; Routines and appended scores for formal discourse features ; Effects of the child's communication initiatives on mother speech ; Effect of age and sex of child on mother speech ; Illustrative case material -- Implications for theory and practice in early intervention. A cognitive-affective theory of the caregiver role in early intervention : beyond the difference-deficit controversy ; A whole-child Piagetian approach to caregiver communication : talking with young children |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 199-205 |
| Notes |
Also issued online |
| Subject |
Children -- Language.
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Home schooling -- United States.
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Homebound instruction -- United States
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Mother and child.
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Oral communication.
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Speech acts (Linguistics)
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| LC no. |
78020049 |
| ISBN |
0126213607 |
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