OBJECTIVE To assess the effectiveness of a clinic-based pediatric literacy intervention on a multilingual population. BACKGROUND Clinic-based literacy interventions are effective among English- and Spanish-speaking children. No data exist for multilingual populations. SETTING Pediatric clinic in an urban county hospital. Design/Methods. Reading practices of 2 cross-sectional groups were ass...

The study describes the acquisition of verb by typically developing Amharic-speaking children. It recruitedcross-sectional research design to gather speeches’ data from thirty-two children using picture description, spontaneous elicitation, and story-tellingtasks. Thedata were audio- recorded, transcribed IPA, analyzed. result showed that most ofAmharic speakingchildren’s verbs appeared as sing...