Joana Agyeman-Yeboah, Esmeralda J Ricks, Margaret Williams, Portia J Jordan
Experiences of patients living with HIV and AIDS on antiretroviral therapy in Accra, Ghana
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objective study examine effects coaching speechlanguage pathologists educators interactive shared book reading childrens participation shared reading childrens language development thirtytwo educators small groups preschoolers randomly assigned experimental comparison groups experimental group n 15 received 4 inservice workshops plus 5 individualized coaching sessions comparison group received 4 workshops participants videorecorded shared book reading activity small group children pretest posttest video recordings transcribed coded yield measures conversations educators questions childrens responses mean length utterances childrens responses also calculated significant time group interaction effects number length shared reading conversations number participants conversations however significant time group interactions observed use educators experiential reasoning questions childrens experiential reasoning responses mean length utterances childrens responses results suggest coaching increases educators use inferential questions enhancing interactive sharedreading strategy direct impact childrens quality complexity language