Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten: A Bilingual Family Literacy Program in Primary Care.
Purpose: To describe the development and pilot testing of a bilingual family literacy program (FLP) for dual language learners entering kindergarten implemented in a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Description: The Ready and Healthy for Kindergarten program is an English–Spanish bilingual...
| Publicado en: | Maternal & Child Health Journal Vol. 25; no. 4; pp. 521 - 528 |
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Springer Nature
Apr2021
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