A cognitive-linguistic intervention model for mother-infant Pairs: Birth-to-three

Abstract

There is a challenge to develop an educational technology which promotes cognitive and linguistic competency among children of the poor. Researchers who have studied early interactions between mother and child and service deliverers who have implemented parenting programs recognize the link between cognitive and language development. The focus of this paper is a curriculum model which includes both areas of development. The interactive behaviors of mother and child during three successive stages of the child's development (0–9 months, 9–18 months, and 18–36 months) from the matrix of the cognitive-linguistic intervention model.