Teaching Parents to Help Spanish-Speaking Children With Language Delays
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This study tests whether training caregivers (parents or guardians) to teach vocabulary at home helps young Spanish-speaking children who have language delays. The research focuses on children aged 4–6 who speak Spanish regularly.
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Who can take part
- Child is between 4–6 years old and has not completed kindergarten yet
- Child has passed a hearing test to confirm hearing is not the cause of language delay
- Child speaks Spanish at least half of their day
- Child has been diagnosed with a language delay (DLD) using a specific assessment called BESA
- Child does not have an intellectual disability or autism spectrum disorder diagnosis
- Child can speak in sentences of at least 3 words
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