Six Years Later: Effect of Family Involvement Training on the Language Skills of Children from Migrant Families

2012

Lisa St. Clair

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This six year follow-up study to the previously published quasi-experimental study on this group of children and their migrant families examines the effects of a parent involvement program on kindergarten children?s families. Parents in the original study participated in sessions available throughout their child?s kindergarten year that helped them engage their children in academic activities linked to their children?s curriculum in school. These parent involvement sessions were implemented as one component of a Migrant Education Even Start family literacy program. The study was conducted at a rural Midwestern elementary school with 22 kindergarten children from families participating in the parent involvement training program, and 28 kindergarten children from families not participating. This longitudinal study first followed these children through the end of first grade.

parents, involvement, ethnicity, migrant, early childhood education

Peer-reviewed publications in scholarly journals Published/In Press

Consumers/Families, Professionals, Policymakers, Students

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