疫情期间婴幼儿的语言发展:社会经济地位很重要
Priscilla Fung1, Thomas St Pierre2, Momina Raja3
1Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada; Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario L5L 1C6, Canada.
Journal of experimental child psychology
|July 24, 2023
概括
COVID-19大流行对加拿大低收入儿童的屏幕和阅读时间产生了负面影响. 高收入群体的词汇发育没有受到影响,但低收入小孩的词汇发育有所下降.
科学领域:
- 儿童发展 儿童发展
- 语言学的语言学.
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 随着COVID-19大流行,日常生活被打乱,人们对儿童发育产生了担忧.
- 幼儿时代的语言和词汇发展对于长期的结果至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 检查大流行病对加拿大婴儿和幼儿语言发展的影响.
- 评估影响词汇的屏幕时间和阅读习惯的变化.
- 为了比较流行病前和流行病时代的词汇大小.
主要方法:
- 评估了539名加拿大11岁34个月的儿童的屏幕时间和阅读习惯的变化.
- 与1365名儿童的流行前队列相比,词汇量大小.
- 使用标准化的词汇评估.
主要成果:
- 屏幕和阅读时间对低收入儿童的影响最大.
- 在中高收入家庭的儿童中,没有观察到词汇增长的显著变化.
- 低收入的1929个月的儿童在疫情期间表现出更糟糕的词汇发展.
结论:
- 来自较低社会经济地位背景的儿童在危机期间更容易受到伤害.
- 教育工作者和政策制定者必须优先考虑在压力时期为有风险的儿童提供支持.
- 需要有针对性的干预措施来缓解与流行病相关的发展差异.
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