A study of the effectiveness of parents using print referencing to prompt print awareness in preschool children with language delay

• Main Authors: Su, Kai-Han, 蘇楷涵
• Other Authors: Wang, Chiu-Ling
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/z4f9gf

碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 特殊教育學系身心障礙教育教學碩士學位班 === 105 === The aims of the study were to investigate the effectiveness of the parents of language-delayed preschoolers who learning print referencing strategies, and its impacts on the children's print awareness. The multiple probe design across subjects was implemented in this study. Three language-delayed preschoolers and their parents from Taipei area were participated in this study. The parents received a 4-week program for learning print referencing strategies, and met the researcher once per week to understand how they applied print referencing strategies with their children during shared reading at home. The parents were asked to shared reading with their children at least four times per week, and 10-20 minutes per time. The data were analyzed by visual analysis, and C statistic. Direct observations and parent’s interviews were implemented supplementary for exploring the social validity. The results of this study were summarized as follows: (1) After a brief learning, it has immediate effect for increasing parents’ frequencies of using print-referencing strategies during shared-reading. (2) It also has maintenance effect for keeping parents' frequencies of using print-referencing strategies after intervention. (3) The children show improvement in PWPA-C since their parents used print referencing strategies during shared-reading. (4) The children also increase the frequencies of appropriately respond to and discuss about the print awareness since their parents applied print referencing strategies for shared-reading. In addition to discuss of results, this study also provides suggestions for clinical practice and further research.