Language development in early childhood (2.5 to 4 years) in socioeconomically diverse children, and linguistic responsiveness on the part of their caregivers Not Applicable
Conditions
Interventions
This study is designed to evaluate a digital service for parents based around BBC Education's Tiny Happy People video content (see: https://www.bbc.co.uk/tiny-happy-people). This service has been desi
Sponsors
University of Sheffield
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Participants are included in this toddler-wave evaluation if they were part of the prior infancy-wave evaluation. The inclusion criteria for the original infancy-wave evaluation were as follows: 1. Infants must be no younger than 4 months 2. Infants must be no older than 10 months 3. Infants must be full-term 4. Infants must have a healthy birth weight 5. Families must be raising their child as a monolingual English speaker (at least 80% of the language they hear in the home is English) 6. Families must have a postcode in deciles 1-5 of the Office of National Statistics Index of Multiple Deprivation 7. Families must have access to the internet and a device to watch videos (via smartphone) 8. Participants (caregivers, infants) could be any sex/gender Inclusion criteria for this feasibility study: 9. Families must have taken part in the previous phase of the RCT
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Neither caregiver nor infant had a condition known to affect child language development at the point of recruitment to the infancy-wave evaluation. NB. Since joining the study when infants were 4-10 months, children may since have been diagnosed with a developmental condition and families will remain in this phase of the study even if this is the case.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Engagement with the text message component of the intervention, measured by the percentage of links texted to participants that were clicked on by participants between November 2023 and May 2024. 2. Engagement with the higher intensity video-call component of the intervention, measured by the percentage of scheduled sessions attended by caregivers, recorded by research team members during the implementation period between November 2023 and May 2024. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Feasibility of service delivery: 1. Engagement with service measured by the number of participants opting to withdraw from the study by participants between November 2023 and May 2024 2. Fidelity of Speech and Language Therapists’ implementation of 1-1 video call sessions measured by the Quality of Interaction measure of Wickersham et al. (2011) between November 2023 and May 2024 Feasibility of service evaluation: 3. Response to outcome questionnaires measured by the number of participants returning questionnaires between May 2024 and July 2024 4. Response to request to share home videos via smartphones (to allow outcome measurement of interaction and child language) measured by the number of participants sharing a video between May 2024 and July 2024 5. Response to request to book a home visit (for a researcher to collect child language outcome measures in person) as measured by the number of participants returning making an appointment between June 2024 and July 2024 6. Presence for home visit (for a researcher to collect child language measures in person) as measured by the number of participants at home for outcome data collection appointment between June 2024 and July 2024 7. Feasibility of collecting data using the ERB and the Language Screen in homes with 3 ½ year olds as measured by the number of participants for whom data could be collected between June 2024 and July 2024 Acceptability and fidelity of delivery: 8. Acceptability of the text message component of the intervention to caregivers measured using a questionnaire based on the Sekhon et al. (2017) framework in May 2024 9. Acceptability of the high-intensity video-call component of the intervention to caregivers measured using a questionnaire based on the Sekhon framework in May 2024 10. Acceptability of the high-intensity video-call component of the intervention to SLT(s) delivering the language intervention measured using a questionnaire based on the Sekhon framework and by interview in May 2024 1 | — |
Countries
England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, United Kingdom, Wales
Contacts
Public ContactDanielle;Kiera Matthews;Solaiman
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Outcome results
None listed