450
Participants
Start Date
July 11, 2025
Primary Completion Date
August 31, 2029
Study Completion Date
August 31, 2029
Media instruction
Caregivers will be asked to implement joint media sessions with their child four times per week for 12 weeks using lightly adapted versions of the commercially-available Super Why! program, which focuses on early literacy skills, including alphabet knowledge, rhyming, spelling, and print concepts. Sessions are anticipated to last 20 minutes. Caregivers will be trained by researchers on explicit strategies to use to promote children's learning. Caregivers will digitally log every session and audio record 1 session each week
Storybook intervention
Caregivers will be asked to implement joint storybook reading sessions with their child four times per week for 12 weeks using adapted versions of the commercially -available Super-Why! storybooks, which focus on early literacy skills including alphabet knowledge, rhyming, spelling, and print concepts. Sessions are anticipated to last 20 minutes. Caregivers will be trained by researchers on explicit strategies to use to promote children's learning. Caregivers will digitally log every session and audio record 1 session each week.
RECRUITING
The Ohio State University Crane Center for Early Childhood, Columbus
University of Central Florida
OTHER
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)
NIH
Ohio State University
OTHER