Talk Around Town: A Mobile Phone Application to Support Parent–Child Talk in the Community

• Published in: Families in society Vol. 101; no. 1; pp. 21 - 33
• Main Authors: Irvin, Dwight W., Bigelow, Kathryn M., Turcotte, Amy, Eastwood-Tallmon, Nick, Wallisch, Anna
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.01.2020; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Application; Caregivers; Childhood; Children; Communication strategies; Community centers; Early intervention; Global positioning systems; GPS; Head Start project; Home based; Human services; Mobile phones; Parents & parenting; Pilot projects; Positioning; Wayfinding; at-risk young children; GPS; parent language strategies for the community; parent–child interactions; wayfinding

Supports are largely absent and tools are scarce to assist parents receiving home-based early intervention services (e.g., Early Head Start) with enriching the language learning environments of young children beyond home to the community. Talk Around Town is a wayfinding mobile application designed...