The purpose of this article is to establish if parent directed language interventions for children with less than 10 words could be generalized to joint engagement interactions with parents in a non-intervention setting. This article tells us that the encouragement of taking the intervention goals and practicing them at home to generalize them into a naturalistic environment is an important aspect of early language interventions. This provides the opportunity for the parent to become a part of the intervention team. Also, the use of symbols, such as play objects, is important to work on during the intervention of these early language users. The joint engagement that this article focused on was symbol-infused interactions which are known to stimulate vocabulary gains.
This is a lack of research regarding how parents
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From reading this article, I can encourage parent involvement in the intervention process and have proof to provide them suggesting that their help in this process has a strong effect on their child’s development. When working with early language learners and children with language disorders I will make as much of an effort as I can to include the parents in the process and be there for encouragement not just for the child but the family as a whole. I will provide assistance and guidance to the parents on how they can take some of the intervention goals home and how they can further their child’s development by continuing these efforts in the child’s naturalistic environment. The pieces of this article I would share with them are the results of the three interventions used and how this vocabulary gain affected a child’s use of symbols in joint engagement with the parents in a more naturalistic environment. I want to provide them proof that their intervention efforts at home can have a positive influence on their