Addressing Disparities in School Readiness Through Promotion of Parenting in Well-Child Care

Disparities in Early Exposure to Book Sharing Within Immigrant Families

“…33 Although having a usual source of health care was not significant in this study, the health care setting is the only social institution to have routine contact with children during their first 3 to 5 years of life; disparities in household practices shaping children' s literacy and language development should be meaningfully addressed by pediatricians. Interventions such as ROR, can be a means of promoting early literacy and language development through the primary care setting, 34,35 yet little is known about how the impact of such programming may vary across immigrant and native-born families.…”

Shared reading: Parental attitudes, practices and barriers in Turkey

“…The healthcare encounters have the unique opportunity to shape parents' beliefs, attitudes and household practices related to SR, as well as to address knowledge gaps 37 . Our study indicated that receiving an SR‐related recommendation was associated with favourable reading practices.…”

Mitigating the Effects of Family Poverty on Early Child Development through Parenting Interventions in Primary Care

“…27 Although these null results might cast doubt on the effectiveness of literacy promotion in primary care, interpretation of effect must be made with respect to the relatively low intervention dose as well as the relatively low level of risk experienced by families in the population being targeted (nearly 75% of caregivers were high school graduates and only one-fifth were classified as low-income). 28 …”

“…As such, ROR reaches approximately 20% to 25% of 0- to 5-year-old children in the United States today who are living in households <200% of the federal poverty level. 28 HS has also undergone significant dissemination, with sites in 15 states. 58 The dissemination of HS is a particularly illustrative example of how the continued development and expansion of the family centered pediatric medical home, which allows for coordination and communication among colocated services and thus more wholly targets well-being, provides a supportive context for such scaling.…”