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This calendar grew out of a Network sponsored research symposium entitled Enhancing Caregiver Language Facilitation in Child Care Settings where leading experts from Canada and the United States shared the most up-to-date findings on how to facilitate children's language development in child care settings. These findings appear in the 16-month, full-colour, child-friendly calendar as monthly quick tips, covering September 2004-December 2005.
Each month presents a different language facilitation focus:
| September 2004 |
Respect Cultural Differences |
Jessica Ball, University of Victoria |
| October 2004 |
Engage Children in Conversations |
Kathleen McCartney, Harvard University |
| November 2004 |
Share Books |
David Dickinson, Boston College |
| December 2004 |
Make Children Feel Important |
Hillel Goelman, University of British Columbia |
| January 2005 |
Use Language to Encourage Friendships |
Genese Warr-Leeper, The University of Western Ontario |
| February 2005 |
Support Second Language Learners |
Jeanne Wilcox, Kathleen Murphy, Arizona State University |
| March 2005 |
Encourage Conversational Turn-taking |
Elaine Weitzman, The Hanen Centre & Luigi Girolametto, University of Western Ontario |
| April 2005 |
Play and Learn |
David Dickinson, Boston College |
| May 2005 |
Use Books for Conversation |
Elaine Weitzman, The Hanen Centre & Luigi Girolametto, University of Toronto |
| June 2005 |
Encourage Language to Think and Imagine |
Hillel Goelman, University of British Columbia |
| July 2005 |
Read the Book Again... and Again |
Monique Sénéchal, Carleton University |
| August 2005 |
Develop Storytelling Skills |
David Dickinson, Boston College |
| September 2005 |
Promote Peer Interaction |
Elaine Weitzman, The Hanen Centre & Luigi Girolametto, University of Toronto |
| October 2005 |
Increase Vocabulary |
Monique Sénéchal, Carleton University |
| November 2005 |
Organize Mealtime |
Jeanne Wilcox, Kathleen Murphy, Arizona State University |
| December 2005 |
Focus on Early Literacy |
David Dickinson, Boston College |
We also thank the following organizations for helping us to disseminate 22,000 of the calendars: The Hanen Centre; University of Toronto - Graduate Department of Speech-Language Pathology; The Canadian Child Care Federation; Healthy Child Manitoba; Canadian Association of Speech-Language Pathologists and Audiologists; Assocation of Early Childhood Educators-Ontario; Investing in Children; and the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network.
Appreciation is extended to the following individuals who were involved in preparing this calendar: Luigi Girolametto (University of Toronto); Elaine Weitzman, Janice Greenberg, Michelle Lintott, Penny Tantakis (The Hanen Centre); Maureen Benadiba Cohen (Toronto Preschool Speech and Language Services); Anja Kessler (Design by yaddaYadda communication); Ruth Ohi and Christine Tripp (illustrators); Philippe Lauzon (Haliburton & Lauzon Translation); Dan Sinai, Jill Wright, Laura Steenburgh, Ann Marie Schenk and Dana Hajik (Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network); Simone Graham, (Graham Communication Strategies); and Rob Cole, (Capital Colour Graphics Inc.)
If you would like to receive complimentary calendars for your child care centre, please contact Jill Wright, Communications Officer, Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network,
or 519.850-2524.
You may also print out additional copies of this calendar for personal (non-commercial) use by visiting the Resource focus area at the Canadian Language and Literacy Research Network's Web site: http://www.cllrnet.ca .
To ensure that this calendar becomes a yearly resource, calendars for future years will be available to download from The Network's Web site each year.
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