This systematic review aims to review the potential psychosocial benefits of individual reminiscence therapy for people with dementia. Five randomized controlled trials were identified. All were ...carried out in nursing or care homes, and several different approaches were represented. The studies reported some immediate and longer-term psychosocial benefits to people with dementia of individual reminiscence work, where this involved a life review process or personalized, specific reminiscence work. These benefits included mood, well-being and aspects of cognitive function. There was no evidence that the use of general reminiscence materials was associated with psychosocial benefits. The use of life story books and multimedia alternatives, with or without an associated life review process, does appear to be worth pursuing from both clinical and research perspectives.
Research has consistently established the positive impact of sharing books with young children. Evidence suggests several important factors when evaluating book sharing with young children, including ...the quality of educator practice = and the nature of groupings, as well as the frequency and duration of book sharing sessions and access to books.
Other evidence suggests book sharing may be particularly important for children from low ses backgrounds attending early learning settings.
This paper reports on a larger study which investigated the factors and relationships influencing the use of children’s literature to support principles of diversity in kindergarten rooms of long day care centres.
A mixed methods approach was adopted and a convergent design was employed to synthesise the qualitative and quantitative data and interpret significant relationships and their meanings. The quality of educator practice was measured through the Systematic Assessment of Book Reading (SABR) and Children’s engagement in book sharing was assessed using the Children’s Orientation to Book Reading Rating Scale. Detailed analysis of 148 video recorded book sharing sessions produced statistical representations of the frequency and duration of book sharing across the contexts and the nature of involvement of the children in the study. Twenty four educators and 110 children from four long day care centres in Western Australia participated. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, video-based observations, field notes, document analysis and a book audit.
The results showed that while the children in this study had a range of book sharing experiences, few of these were frequent or of high quality. Of great concern is the finding that the children in this study most likely to be considered at risk of educational disadvantage were those with the least exposure to book sharing in general, and, even less so, to high quality book sharing, raising concerns about equitable outcomes for them.
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This research aimed find out the effectiveness of using big story book project (BSBP) in teaching reading comprehension and to know the advantages and the disadvantages of using BSBP in teaching ...reading comprehension. The researcher applied pre-experimental research design and consists of pre-test, treatment and post-test in order to find whether the big story book project (BSBP) effective in teaching reading comprehension. The instruments used in this research were reading test and questionnaire. The result from this research shows that using big story book project (BSBP) in teaching reading comprehension is effective. It is proved by the result that there is significant difference between the result of the students’ mean score in the pre-test and the post-test. In the pre-test, the students’ mean score is (43.79) and in the post-test is (80.37). Furthermore, it is proved by the probability value is smaller than α (0.00 < 0.05). On the other word, BSBP has advantages to the students if applied in teaching and learning process, especially in reading subject.
The purposes of this research were to describe: (1) the communication ability of children with autism before using a story book, (2) the communication ability of children with autism after using a ...story book, (3) the significant effect between story book for the communication ability of children with autism. The research design was experiment method with the single subject (Single Subject Research) and A-B-A’ design. The data was collected by using an assessment and observation. It has been collected by percentage. Based to the result, the mean level was 85.7 in intervention condition. Overlap percentage was 0%, it has showed that the intervention with telling story by the story book had an effect to the behavior’s target of communication ability. It could increased the communication ability of children with autism. The conclusion of this research showed that by using the story book can increase the communication ability of children with autism after getting intervention by using the story book. The suggestion for the teacher should use a media such as a story book that based on the theme to increase the communication of children with autism
This study aims to develop a picture story book based on Augmented Reality (AR) application. The sample in this study were experts who assessed the validity and practicality of the media. This study ...use a Research and Development approach with the Borg & Gall model. This study used to purposive random sampling technique. The data in this study were collected with questionnaire techniques. The data analysis technique used to descriptive statistics. The results showed that the learning media in the form of Augmented Reality-based picture story books were declared valid and practical to used in mathematics learning. So, this learning media can be used to accommodate Z generation students in mathematics learning.Abstrak: Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengembangkan buku cerita bergambar dengan bantuan aplikasi Augmented Reality. Sampel pada penelitian ini yaitu ahli penilai kelayakan dan kepraktisan media. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan Research and Development dengan model Borg & Gall. Penelitian ini menggunakan teknik sampling purpossive random sampling. Data pada penelitian ini dikumpulkan dengan teknik angket. Teknik analisis data yang digunakan adalah statistik deskriptif. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa media pembelajaran berupa buku cerita bergambar berbasis Augmented Reality dinyatakan layak dan praktis untuk digunakan pada pembelajaran matematika. Dengan demikian, media pembelajaran ini dapat digunakan untuk mengakomodasi siswa generasi Z pada pembelajaran matematika.
Taking 22 children with mild and moderate autism as subjects and using the TobiiX 120 eye-tracker to record their eye movements in visual search of images in picture books, the characteristics of the ...process of autistic children viewing picture books were explored. Two measures, fixation counts and gaze duration, were used alongside attention heatmap, to explore the visual patterns among children with autism viewing two types of researcher-made picture books and an ordinary picture book. Using a within-subject design, it was found that children with autism could sustain longer gaze duration and have more fixation points on the effective area of the picture book content when viewing researcher-made picture books than when viewing the ordinary picture book, suggesting better visual attention to single-object and single-pattern picture books. The study offers insights and support for related picture book reading and teaching in the future.
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A review of 20 experimental, shared book reading (SBR) interventions using questioning strategies with preschool children was conducted. The studies were analysed in terms of their quality, focus, ...and the questioning strategies employed. Although there were few methodological concerns about the studies conducted, treatment fidelity and replicability of the reported interventions are raised as issues needing attention in future research. The impact of questioning strategies on language and pre- literacy skills tended to be a focus of the reported studies, with little investigation of the development of children's thinking skills through questioning, and there were few attempts to analyse children's responses to different types of questioning techniques. Across the reported studies, there was also a lack of consistency around the terminology associated with different kinds of questioning. The article concludes with discussion of implications for the use of questioning techniques in early childhood education practice and argues for research into the impact of different questioning techniques on children's cognitive development. Author abstract
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The purposes of this research were to describe: (1) the communication ability of children with autism before using a story book, (2) the communication ability of children with autism after using a ...story book, (3) the significant effect between story book for the communication ability of children with autism. The research design was experiment method with the single subject (Single Subject Research) and A-B-A’ design. The data was collected by using an assessment and observation. It has been collected by percentage. Based to the result, the mean level was 85.7 in intervention condition. Overlap percentage was 0%, it has showed that the intervention with telling story by the story book had an effect to the behavior’s target of communication ability. It could increased the communication ability of children with autism. The conclusion of this research showed that by using the story book can increase the communication ability of children with autism after getting intervention by using the story book. The suggestion for the teacher should use a media such as a story book that based on the theme to increase the communication of children with autism
The young generation, born into digital technologies and called Millennials or the Y-Generation, are raised in a world where everybody has a computer in their pockets (Hamari et al., 2014), and they ...are constantly engaged in digital activities. However, research on the impact of digital devices on learners’ educational performance and motivation is still an emerging field. This article aims to examine perceptions of the sixth-grade students in Turkey of their e-reading experiences on the basis of their personalized/gamified/PDF electronic reading practices in school and the influences of their perceptions on their reading comprehension and levels of motivation in English as a foreign language (EFL) classroom. The study follows a quasi-experimental approach with four treatment groups and a control group, involving 96 sixth-grade state school students in Turkey. The three treatment groups read in order from the personalized/gamified/PDF electronic reading for 5 weeks whereas the control group used printed guided reading program. The results indicate that EFL learners’ use of screen reading has the potential to increase reading motivation of the students. However, no significant difference was observed in their reading comprehension levels despite the use of different reading medium in control and experimental groups.
Touch screen tablets and story book apps provide opportunities for teachers to support young children’s shared reading experiences. Much research has examined the benefits of digital book reading in ...children’s learning. However, less is known about how very young children engage with and learn from interactive story book apps and how teachers support these early reading experiences. The case study reported on here was conducted in the north of England and explored how one teacher scaffolded a young child’s learning and interactions during shared reading of a story book app (
Three Little Pigs
) in her early years classroom. The teacher used a wide range of words, repetition, and questioning strategies to engage the child with the story content and maintain her interest which provided a positive experience for the child. The teacher also offered encouragement and technical assistance to scaffold learning. These important teacher supports afforded opportunities for the child to learn about language and literacy in meaningful ways with a digital device. This generates practical recommendations on how early childhood teachers can effectively engage young children with story book apps in the classroom.
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