Abstract
Thailand had Family Development Center (FDC) Staff for family promotion and development to strengthen warm relations and social immunization of family members in the community. The RP3 program has been created to enhance the language development skills of people working with small children. This paper examines the effectiveness of the RP3 Program on improving FDC staff skills in early childhood language development in rural Thai communities. A quasi-experimental design was used with 40 FDC staff in each group. The intervention group received the RP3 Program. Data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire and analyzed using paired t-test and independent t-test. The results revealed that the intervention group had significantly higher mean scores in self-efficacy after attending the program than before, and also significantly higher than the comparison group (p<0.001). This shows that FDC staff may be able to upgrade and change attitudes through intervention programs and have more belief in their ability to guide their parents. This study may be valuable for local authorities and relevant sectors as a guideline for FDC staff by considering the context of the organization and the community.
Highlights
Language is a source of communication for the world's children, a process that begins at birth and continues throughout life (Isler et al, 2017)
He believed that early language acquisition was obtained through cultural and social experiences
Gender: the staff in both the intervention group and comparison group consisted of 7 males (17.5%), 33 females (82.5%)
Summary
Language is a source of communication for the world's children, a process that begins at birth and continues throughout life (Isler et al, 2017). Childhood language delay is a highly prevalent circumstance of professional and parental concern It may bring about long-term deficits in language functions, and in social and emotional well-being, and academic achievement. Such life-long consequences of early childhood delays can become a downhill trajectory and have an adverse effect on economic and social development of their countries. Having strong families nationally reduces the cost of special education for children It found that there were some problems in families and children, including in language development (Boonsuk et al, 2014; Kanpirom and Masena, 2017)
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