Allison Breit

Associated IES Content

FY2022

FY2022 Special Education Peer Review Panel

FY2023

FY2023 Early Intervention and Early Childhood Education Peer Review Panel

FY2021

FY2021 Early Intervention and Early Childhood Education Peer Review Panel

Grant

Building Preschool Children's Complex Language Using Informational Texts

The purpose of this project is to teach complex language skills (that is, how to use information to draw inferences, use and understand syntactic/semantic relationships, and use and understand academic vocabulary) to preschool-age children during interactive book reading, mapping, and hands-on activities using informational texts.

Federal funding program:

Education Research Grants

Award number:

R305A200271

FY2019

FY2019 Early Intervention and Early Childhood Education Peer Review Panel

Grant

Developing an Expository Book Reading Intervention for Preschool Children with Language Impairment

Language Impairment (LI) is a common disorder among the school-age population, affecting approximately 7.4 percent of children. Approximately half of the children identified with LI at a young age will go on to be later identified with a reading disability. Young children with impaired language are six times more likely to be identified with a reading disability at school age than non-impaired children. One intervention demonstrating significant and positive effects on preschool children's e...