Engaging Early Head Start parents in a collaborative inquiry: the co-construction of Little Talks

Manz, Patricia H.; Eisenberg, Rachel; Gernhart, Amanda L.; Faison, Jacqueline; Laracy, Seth D.; Ridgard, Tamique; Pinho, Trevor

doi:10.1080/03004430.2016.1169177

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“…Collaboration is critical given that parents’ interactions with children are molded by their culture and parenting beliefs (Melzi, 2013). Therefore, to be effective, interventions must conform to these culturally based values, beliefs, and interpersonal processes (Manz et al, 2016). Home visitors, like all clinicians, need to balance evidence-based intervention based on children’s assessment data with parents’ natural interpersonal processes, skills, and values for their child.…”

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“…Little Talks is a modular intervention that promotes parent communication and dialogue with infants and toddlers. Little Talks was developed for use in home visiting programs through community-based participatory research methods with EHS families and home visitors (Manz et al, 2016). The intervention includes 14 "lessons" (e.g., modules) that home visitors use to facilitate parent-child interactions to promote children's language.…”

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The Individualization of the Little Talks Intervention: Implications for Modular Treatment Designs

Carr

Manz

2021

Journal of Early Intervention

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Modular treatment designs enable interventionists to adapt intervention content to individual clients, a process referred to as individualization. Little is known about individualization processes and its effects on outcomes in early childhood services. This exploratory study investigated individualization processes undertaken by Early Head Start home visitors as they provided Little Talks, a modularized book-sharing intervention for families. It also examined the effect of individualization on parent involvement in early learning activities. Two indicators of individualization were calculated in this study: (a) the proportion of change in the Little Talks’ lessons sequence and (b) the pace of delivery. Findings showed that most home visitors individualized Little Talks, with the most frequent change being the repetition of lessons. Exploratory regression analysis showed an inverse relationship between home visitors’ individualization behavior and parent involvement, highlighting the need to examine the quality of individualization. Implications for advancing the implementation and study of individualization processes in home visiting are discussed.

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The Individualization of the Little Talks Intervention: Implications for Modular Treatment Designs

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Manz

2021

Journal of Early Intervention

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“…Therefore, Little Talks is intended to become an ongoing, integrated element in home visiting. In preliminary research, Little Talks has been demonstrated to increase children's vocabulary and parents' involvement in children's early learning experiences (Manz et al, 2016). Additionally, parents' reports have repeated indicated a high degree of acceptability (Manz et al, 2016).…”

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“…These modest findings highlight the need for home visiting program models to integrate interventions that are based in research that demonstrates benefits for young children (Buzhardt et al, 2011). In response to this need, Manz and colleagues (Manz et al, 2016) intentionally developed Little Talks, an intervention to bolster infants' and toddlers' language and emergent literacy skills for use in home visiting programs. Little Talks was created by integrating empirically-based intervention components with findings from intensive community-based participatory research with low-income parents of infants and toddlers.…”

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Integrating the little talks intervention into Early Head Start: An experimental examination of implementation supports involving fidelity monitoring and performance feedback

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Roggman

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Children and Youth Services Review

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Enriching home visiting services by incorporating scientifically-supported interventions is a means for improving their effectiveness in promoting child development. However, deliberate efforts to ensure that home visitors are fully knowledgeable and supported to implement interventions with parents of young children are necessary. In this experimental study, a randomly-assigned group of Early Head Start home visitors monitored the fidelity of their provision of a scientifically-based intervention, Little Talks, and the program's general child development services. On a biweekly basis, home visitors received performance feedback specific to their implementation of Little Talks and based upon the fidelity data. Findings demonstrated that home visitors showed immediate and consistent mastery of the Little Talks content, while the quality of their implementation, including their clinical decision-making and collaborative processes, improved to adequate levels over time. The Little Talks home visitors showed generalized improvements in their ability to obtain parent input while providing the program's typical child development services were detected. In fact, Little Talks home visitors' were superior in obtaining parent input relative to comparison home visitors. Further, parents for whom low-quality intervention implementation was observed discontinued their enrollment in home visiting prematurely, while high-quality implementation was associated with sustained enrollment. Limitations for this study are identified, leading to future directions for advancing home visitors' incorporation of evidence-based practices.

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Little Talks: A Modular Treatment Approach for Promoting Infant and Toddler Language Acquisition Through Parents’ Preferences and Competencies

Manz

Ridgard

Ventresco

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Academic Socialization of Young Black and Latino Children

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Engaging Early Head Start parents in a collaborative inquiry: the co-construction of Little Talks

Cited by 6 publications

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The Individualization of the Little Talks Intervention: Implications for Modular Treatment Designs

The Individualization of the Little Talks Intervention: Implications for Modular Treatment Designs

Integrating the little talks intervention into Early Head Start: An experimental examination of implementation supports involving fidelity monitoring and performance feedback

Little Talks: A Modular Treatment Approach for Promoting Infant and Toddler Language Acquisition Through Parents’ Preferences and Competencies

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