Ariesta Milanti, Dorothy Ngo Sheung Chan, Kai Chow Choi, Winnie Kwok Wei So
eHealth literacy of migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong in the COVID-19 pandemic: A mixed methods study
PloS one
childrens literacy numeracy skills fundamental early academic performance later academic success mental health employment prospects adulthood given parents play key role promoting child development identifying early parenting behaviors predict literacy numeracy skills research imperative emerging evidence suggests parental use decontextualized language dltalk requires cognitive abstraction transcends nowpredicts childrens literacy skills however relation numeracy remains underexplored accordingly current study examined dl interaction children infancy t1 preschool years t2 relates child literacy numeracy middle childhood t3 participants 26 irish motherfatherchild triads 16 female children t1 t2 participants engaged 5min interactions coded dl t3 child literacy numeracy assessed using wechsler intelligence scale childrenfourth edition teacher report child scores national standardized tests controlling child age contextualized utterances child reading middle childhood negatively related maternal child dl infancy positively related dl preschool years suggesting benefits dl may become apparent later development mothers fathers childrens dl preschool years also positively linked child numeracy middle childhood thus embedding dl conversation children may positive domainspecific crossdomain effects childrens literacy numeracy performance findings provide incentive future research examine relations dl childrens school performance across wider range developmental domains