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 …

. It compares the outcomes of two cohorts of children who were exposed to the same intervention at different points in time …

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 … vocabulary. This study assessed 505 children ages 2 to 6 in rural communities in Western Kenya with comparable vocabulary tests …

catered to children from different wealth backgrounds than those that remained open. These results point to actionable lessons …

Early childhood is a crucial period for the cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and language development of … children. Of the 200 million children who do not reach their developmental potential worldwide, 66 percent live in South Asia … that contribute to the growth and development of children in early childhood. There are also large gaps in teachers …

guided interactions between parents and children focused on responsive play and dialogic reading. Three years after the end … of the intervention, the receptive vocabulary and the socio-emotional development of children of families participating … in either of the treatment arms improved (by 0.43 and 0.54 standard deviation, respectively) relative to children of …