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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks to those who’ve responded with suggestions. Here is one from Michele Koven, who’s having trouble posting to the list.
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<p class="MsoNormal">So far I haven’t found evaluations/critiques of evaluations of the actual interventions such as Providence Talks or the 30 Million Word Initiative, which particularly interest me. Cartmill 2016 mentions that it was too early for those at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Michele Koven <koven.michele@gmail.com><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, April 15, 2019 at 5:54 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>Kathryn Woolard <kwoolard@ucsd.edu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [Linganth] Word Gap intervention evaluation studies?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Here is a popular press link that summarizes Doug Sperry’s findings that challenge the word gap.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/word-gap-low-income-children-psychology-reproducibility">https://www.sciencenews.org/article/word-gap-low-income-children-psychology-reproducibility</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 7:21 PM Woolard, Kathryn <<a href="mailto:kwoolard@ucsd.edu" target="_blank">kwoolard@ucsd.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Talks” or other LENA-based interventions? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Brief googling has led me only to short (glowing) news reports 2017-18 and an unpublished ms. of a Brown University study of Providence Talks, which falls far short in research
standards in my view. For evaluation of change in child language skills, it uses only a self-administered parent evaluation form devised and provided by LENA itself to its participants.
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