مجلة المواقف
Volume 21, Numéro 2, Pages 313-347
2026-06-01
Family Environment And Child Language Development: A Quasi-experimental Speech-language Pathology Study Protocol
Authors : Boudjemai Djouhra .
Abstract
Child language development is strongly shaped by everyday interaction within the family. In speech-language pathology, the family is not only a social background. It is also a key context in which language input, emotional security, conversational turns, symbolic play, and shared reading are formed. Aim: This protocol proposes and describes a 12-week family-based speech-language intervention for preschool and early-school children with mild to moderate language delay. Methods: The study is designed as a quasi-experimental protocol with pre-test and post-test measures. A comparison group may be added when field conditions allow. Parents in the intervention group receive weekly training in responsive interaction, waiting, following the child's interest, expansion, recasting, dialogic reading, symbolic play, and home language-environment organization. Main outcomes include expressive vocabulary, mean length of utterance, communicative initiatives, conversational turns, receptive language indicators, and the quality of the family language environment. Data will be collected through natural language sampling, a vocabulary checklist, a parent-child interaction observation grid, a family language-environment questionnaire, a home-practice log, and a preschool or school report. Discussion: The protocol translates Arabic and international evidence on family language input and parent-implemented intervention into a structured model that can be applied in speech-language clinics and educational settings. The manuscript is presented as a protocol. No field results are reported. Outcomes should be inserted only after implementation with a real sample and statistical analysis
Keywords
family environment ; language development ; speech-language pathology ; parent-implemented intervention ; parental responsiveness ; dialogic reading ; preschool child ; quasi-experimental protocol
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