Davidson Rosemary, Randhawa Gurch
Institute for Health Research, University of Bedfordshire, Luton, United Kingdom.
JMIR Pediatr Parent. 2022 May 20;5(2):e25086. doi: 10.2196/25086.
Any delays in language development may affect learning, profoundly influencing personal, social, and professional trajectories. The effectiveness of the Sign 4 Big Feelings (S4BF) intervention was investigated by measuring changes in early years outcomes (EYOs) after a 3-month period.
This study aims to determine whether children's well-being and EYOs significantly improve (beyond typical, expected development) after the S4BF intervention period and whether there are differences between boys and girls in progress achieved.
An evaluation of the S4BF intervention was conducted with 111 preschool-age children in early years settings in Luton, United Kingdom. Listening, speaking, understanding, and managing feelings and behavior, in addition to the Leuven well-being scale, were assessed in a quasi-experimental study design to measure pre- and postintervention outcomes.
Statistically and clinically significant differences were found for each of the 7 pre- and postmeasures evaluated: words understood and spoken, well-being scores, and the 4 EYO domains. Gender differences were negligible in all analyses.
Children of all abilities may benefit considerably from S4BF, but a language-based intervention of this nature may be transformational for children who are behind developmentally, with English as an additional language, or of lower socioeconomic status.
ISRCTN Registry ISRCTN42025531; https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN42025531.
语言发展方面的任何延迟都可能影响学习，对个人、社交和职业发展轨迹产生深远影响。通过测量3个月后的早期发展成果（EYO）变化，研究了“手语表达四大情感”（S4BF）干预措施的有效性。
本研究旨在确定在S4BF干预期后，儿童的幸福感和EYO是否显著改善（超出典型的预期发展），以及男孩和女孩在取得的进展方面是否存在差异。
在英国卢顿的早期教育机构中，对111名学龄前儿童进行了S4BF干预评估。在一项准实验研究设计中，除了鲁汶幸福感量表外，还对听力、口语、理解以及情感和行为管理进行了评估，以测量干预前后的结果。
在评估的7项干预前后测量指标中的每一项上均发现了统计学和临床意义上的显著差异：理解和说出的单词、幸福感得分以及4个EYO领域。在所有分析中，性别差异可忽略不计。
所有能力水平的儿童都可能从S4BF中受益匪浅，但这种基于语言的干预措施对于发育落后、以英语为第二语言或社会经济地位较低的儿童可能具有变革性。
国际标准随机对照试验编号注册库ISRCTN42025531；https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN42025531 。
