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Madres Educando a Sus Niños: Integrating Culture into Intervention

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This chapter describes the development of a culturally responsive interactive book-reading intervention called Madres Educando a Sus Niños/Mothers Educating Their Children that is designed to promote the language development of preschool -aged Hispanic children who are dual language learners . Specifically, the chapter details a multi-step framework that was followed when developing the intervention that includes establishing the theoretical and empirical foundation, gathering input from key stakeholders who represent the population of intended participants, and iteratively developing the intervention materials. This discussion is followed by a summary of the effectiveness of the intervention and implications for how these steps can be used to develop different types of educational interventions for other culturally and linguistically diverse populations of various ages.

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    Note that Hispanic is used throughout the manuscript because the mothers involved in the project preferred this term to describe themselves.

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  1. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

    Carol Scheffner Hammer

  2. Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA

    Brook E. Sawyer

  3. University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA

    Lauren M. Cycyk

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Hammer, C.S., Sawyer, B.E., Cycyk, L.M. (2018). Madres Educando a Sus Niños: Integrating Culture into Intervention. In: Sonnenschein, S., Sawyer, B. (eds) Academic Socialization of Young Black and Latino Children. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04486-2_9

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