HCS2023 WEEK 8 Flashcards
name 3 universal target intervention which have been designed, delivered and evaluated in low SES area
talking time, talk boost, nuffield early language intervention
what do research studies normally study regarding mother-child interaction and SES
quantity of child-direct speech
mother sensitivity
quality of interaction (different word, diversity of word, type of communicative function, responsiveness)
what does SES include
maternal education
family income
characteristics of area of residence
parental occupation
what can measures of SES include?
postcode data
means tests and low income indicator (free-school meal)
mothers completed last year of school?
family literacy measures
number of books in home
poverty line
what ethnicity has highest amount of poverty in UK?
Pakistani/Bangladeshi
what can financial capital include
income
disposable income
wealth
security
outline cultural capital
from a wealthy background but suddenly lost source of financial capital, would still be priveliged
what is social capital?
relationships that you’ve got between people that help you (include bonding, bridging and linking)
define bonding social capital
derived from relationships between similar persons (similar sociodemographics, socioeconomic)
define bridging social capital
derived from dissimilar persons at same level of hierarchy
define linking social capital
conceptualised as relationships between persons across levels of hierarchy and power
what is habitus
Bourdieu classic theory in how social and cultural reproduction happens - how pass on social advantage/disadvantages
how are children defined as disadvantaged in education
eligible for free school meals, having been looked after for at least 1 day, adopted
whats positionality
social, political context creates your identity of race, class, gender, sexuality, ability status
how your identity can bias understanding and outlook on world
what can maternal language input from different SES have significant consequences on
vocab, syntax, lang processing skills
cognitive skill (EF)
math skill
social skill
instead of SES, what can be a significant risk for late language emergence age 2
familial history of LLE, male gender, early neurobiological growth
what did Victoria Language Study find, regarding SES
risk factor age 2 accounts small amount of variation for language outcome
age 4, moderately able to predict low language ability with range of risk factors
critically evaluate population study
+standardised language assessment
- postcode data and school attendence
name environmental explanations of SES relationship with poor language
maternal education
quantity of child-direct speech
mother sensitivity (prompting appropriate response, aligning talk with child gaze)
quality of interactions
outline how culture/socialisation can impact developing language in children
infant direct, contingent, reciprocal talk is anomalous globally, is socio-culturally defined also
children who receive very little direct interaction still reaches linguistic milestone
outline Hart & Riesly longitudinal research on expressive language of mother-child dyads from varying SES in USA
every month for 2.5yr, families observed/recorded at home
found low SES used smaller number/range of word
positive correlation with SES and number of utterances addressed
1500 word gap (2100 words an hour vs 600 words an hour)
name issues of Hart & Riesly longitudinal research
concluded children had issues = they were fine, just being compared to their more well off peers
biased recruitment (friends, only 1 black couple)
didn’t include non-words (children have other words for object)
Sperry found that when ethnographically informed, no word gap
outline Sperry’s research against Hart & Riesly longitudinal research
when looked at family as whole, naturalistic, and counted all heard talk, word gap disappeard and low SES hear more language
in conclusion, what should be done in clinical practice, regarding SES
treat all children with language issue same, despite SES or possible causes
