Child Development and Learning Outcomes
FIGURE 10. | TOTAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT FOR CHILDREN IN HOME VISITING, N=51
We wanted to investigate how language development might vary by home language. Children whose home language was Spanish experienced gains in receptive and total language skills from baseline to follow-up, compared to English-only children who did not show these gains (see Figure 11). Because we anticipate that home visiting will support children’s language development over time, we examined associations of children’s developing language and home visiting. Children whose families received more home visits over time demonstrated higher levels of expressive (r = .22) and total language scores (r = .22) at follow-up. FIGURE 11. | CHANGE IN INFANT-TODDLERS’ LANGUAGE SKILLS BY HOME LANGUAGE, N = 51
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Superintendents’ Early Childhood Plan Evaluation