Camilo Ortiz

TL;DR: The authors examined the relation between parent involvement in preschool and children's preliteracy skills and examined socioeconomic status (SES), parent depression, and single parent status as predictors of parent involve- ment.

TL;DR: The authors examined the effects of a scaffolded music instruction program on the vocabulary and verbal sequencing skills of two cohorts of second-grade students, one group (n = 46) studied piano formally for a period of three consecutive years as part of a comprehensive instructional intervention program.

TL;DR: This paper found that the relationship between academic development and behavior problems begins early, suggesting that programs to address these issues should start with young children and that efforts to improve achievement are most likely to succeed when they focus both on children's academic skills and on their interest in academic activities.

TL;DR: This paper examined whether there are gender differences among preschoolers in how language development is related to disruptive behavior and peer relationships and found that lower levels of language skills were more strongly associated with disruptive behaviour and poor peer relationships.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated whether parents can affect their children's interest in shared reading, using a multimethod assessment, and found that after one week, children in the intervention group were more interested in sharing reading compared to children in an attention-control group.