Abecedarian Resources

Course Information

• Course Price $00
• Place Amman, Jordan
• Total Students 800+
• Course Duration 4 Weeks

Description

The Abecedarian Approach is a suite of teaching and learning strategies that were developed to improve the early development and later academic achievement of children from at-risk and under-resourced families.

Scientific studies have shown that the strategies can prevent the very early downward trend in cognitive development typical of many disadvantaged children. As seen in the figure below, almost all of the children in both the randomized experimental and control groups of the first Abecedarian study were in the normal cognitive range at the beginning of the study. Most of those who received the Abecedarian intervention (the upper line) continued to stay in the normal cognitive range. But more than half of those who did not receive the intervention (the declining lower line) fell out of the normal range by 36 months of age. The difference between the groups was statistically significant by the time the children were 18 months of age (Martin, Ramey, & Ramey, 1990)

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