vocabulary. This study assessed 505 children ages 2 to 6 in rural communities in Western Kenya with comparable vocabulary tests …In many low- and middle-income countries, young children learn a mother tongue or indigenous language at home before …, assessments of children before school age, conducted in a nation's official language, may not fully reflect a child's development …

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