Bilingualism as a Potential Strategy to Improve Executive Function in Preterm Infants: A Review

Head, Lauren M.; Baralt, Melissa; Mahoney, Ashley Darcy

doi:10.1016/j.pedhc.2014.08.015

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“…This finding contradicted the hypothesis of Head et al. , who speculated that multilingualism may serve as a strategy to improve executive functioning in preterm children, based on the findings in typically developing children in which multilingualism had been associated with increased brain volume and plasticity, with enhanced executive function skills . In contrast, exposing preterm children to two different languages at a young age might cause an overload of information, as these children are already at risk for poorer language and communication skills at this young age .…”

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Multilingualism was associated with lower cognitive outcomes in children who were born very and extremely preterm

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Multilingualism was associated with lower cognitive outcomes in children who were born very and extremely preterm

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“…Bilingualism confers significant cognitive, academic, and social-emotional benefits for children (e.g. Adi-Japha et al, 2010; Bialystok, 2009; de Abreu et al, 2012; Head et al, 2015), and has important sociocultural and identity implications. Promoting the family’s home language encourages a maintained connection to their heritage and to their family’s cultural values (Wong Fillmore, 1991).…”

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Háblame Bebé: A phone application intervention to support Hispanic children’s early language environments and bilingualism

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2020

Child Language Teaching and Therapy

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The early language environments of low-income Hispanic children can be negatively affected when their Spanish-speaking caregivers face racism, assimilation pressure, and/or misinformed advice based on English-only ideologies. This article reports on the design and efficacy of Háblame Bebé, a language-promoting phone application that encourages low-income Hispanic mothers to talk more to their children in their native Spanish with the goals of (1) improving their children’s early language environment, (2) promoting bilingualism, and (3) monitoring developmental milestones. The app was designed and tested across three phases as mandated by the US HRSA Bridging the Word Gap Challenge. In Phase I, we developed a curriculum that promotes high-quality language interactions in Spanish and designed the app components. In Phase II, we tested the app with 20 Hispanic mothers (half high school-educated, half college-educated) in a pretest–posttest design in which we examined their language interactions before and after two months of using the app. Preliminary results indicated that mother–child verbal interactions increased, but not always in their native Spanish, and the difference was not statistically significant. Focus group data revealed that many of the mothers had experienced linguistic racism and that tropes surrounding Spanish-speaking identity in the USA needed to be explicitly addressed within the intervention. In Phase III, a sociolinguistic pride component was added and the app was again tested with 12 additional Hispanic mothers (all high school-educated only). This time, a statistically significant increase in mother–child verbal interactions was found. Mothers also reported feeling prouder to use Spanish with their children. These results suggest that Háblame Bebé may be a viable means to reach low-income Hispanic caregivers who face obstacles in accessing health information and/or home-visiting programs for their children.

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“…), Handbook of early childhood intervention (2 nd Ed) (pp. [35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53]. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.…”

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“…35 This population may also have the most benefit from early intervention. 36 Future areas of research include a focus on identifying potentially modifiable factors to increase follow-up rates in infants with birth weights more than 1,000 grams.…”

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Factors Associated with High Risk Infant Follow-Up Attendance

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Prematurity is a significant public health problem and preterm infants face well described risks of adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. Bronfenbrenner's bioecological theory of development describes interactions between biological and environmental factors and explains how these interactions can impact development. Systematic follow-up of preterm, high-risk infants is recommended for early identification of problems and provision of interventions and support services. Most research on follow-up attendance has involved small, single sites. A retrospective analysis of population based data available in the California Children's Services High Risk Infant Follow-up Quality of Care Initiative (HRIF-QCI) data system was performed to examine factors associated with attendance at the second recommended visit. Applying the bioecological theory of development to the high-risk infant population reveals the numerous biologic, family, social, cultural, and political factors that influence development. This theory supports the provision of early intervention services to this population. Only 74% of those infants seen for the first visit attended the second recommended visit. Infants with birth weights equal to or less than 750 grams were almost twice as likely to attend the visit compared with those with birth weights greater than 1,250 grams. Private insurance, two parents as caregivers, completion of the first visit during the recommended interval and enrollment in early intervention during the first visit were all associated with higher attendance rates. Public insurance, a single parent as caregiver, or maternal race of Black or Asian were all associated with decreased

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Bilingualism as a Potential Strategy to Improve Executive Function in Preterm Infants: A Review

Cited by 10 publications

References 64 publications

Multilingualism was associated with lower cognitive outcomes in children who were born very and extremely preterm

Multilingualism was associated with lower cognitive outcomes in children who were born very and extremely preterm

Háblame Bebé: A phone application intervention to support Hispanic children’s early language environments and bilingualism

Factors Associated with High Risk Infant Follow-Up Attendance

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