Research project Enhancing Preschool Children’s Attention, Language and Communication Skills
Enhancing Preschool Children’s Attention, Language and Communication Skills: An Interdisciplinary Study of Socio-emotional Learning and Computerized Attention Training.
The aim of the proposed project is to examine, compare and test how socio-emotional learning practices and computer program-oriented practices in Swedish preschools affect children’s attention, social understanding, language and communication skills. These data are further correlated with “geographical socio-economic belonging” and the sex of the child.
This interdisciplinary project uses well-tried intervention methodologies frompedagogy, language skill estimations from linguistics, and cortical measurements from cognitive neuroscience. The results can – if conclusive in any one direction – have deep impact on pedagogic skills hence taught and used, as it will be one of the first evidence based studies on preschool children in Sweden.