benefits for children's development, but the programs are often expensive and resource intensive. The objective of this study …Worldwide, 250 million children under five (43 percent) are not meeting their developmental potential because they lack … parents and improve emergent literacy skills in children. The intervention was a modified dialogic reading training program …

, assessments of children before school age, conducted in a nation's official language, may not fully reflect a child's development …In many low- and middle-income countries, young children learn a mother tongue or indigenous language at home before … entering the formal education system where they will need to understand and speak a country's official language(s). Thus …