{"id":10632,"date":"2026-07-15T18:13:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/?p=10632"},"modified":"2026-07-15T18:14:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T18:14:06","slug":"ppp-year-8-hiebert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/ppp-year-8-hiebert\/","title":{"rendered":"Caregiver Intervention Training for Children with Developmental Language Disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Pilot Project, Year 8<\/h2>\n<div class=\"eplus-bg-color-row bg-color-extra-light-gray\"><div class=\"eplus-bg-color-row-content\"><strong>Summary of project:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This study will evaluate a caregiver training program delivered through the PEEP Family Science app to improve vocabulary development in bilingual preschool children with developmental language disorder (DLD).<\/li>\n<li>Researchers will conduct a randomized controlled trial to assess caregivers&#8217; use of intervention strategies and children&#8217;s vocabulary growth over an 8-week period.<\/li>\n<li>The project will examine caregiver experiences through focus groups to identify opportunities to improve and adapt the intervention.<\/li>\n<li>Findings will help provide an accessible, evidence-based alternative for bilingual families who have limited access to bilingual speech-language pathologists.<\/li>\n<li>Results will support the development of scalable parent training resources to improve language outcomes for children with DLD in Arizona and similar communities.<\/div><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Funding:<\/strong> The study is funded by NIMHD\/NIH 5U54MD012388<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>About the investigators<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>Principal Investigator<\/b><\/h4>\n<div>\n<h5 class=\"p1\"><strong>Lindsey Heibert, PhD, CCC-SLP<\/strong><b><\/b><\/h5>\n<p>Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders<\/p>\n<p><b>Email:\u00a0<\/b><a href=\"mailto:melinda.smith@nau.edu\">Lindsey.Hiebert@nau.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<h4><\/h4>\n<h4><strong>Co-Investigator<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h5 class=\"p1\"><b>Gerald Wood, PhD<\/b><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p1\">Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Email: <\/b>Gerald.Wood@nau.edu<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/pilot-project-program\/year-9\">Back to PPP Years 8 &amp; 9<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pilot Project, Year 8 Funding: The study is funded by NIMHD\/NIH 5U54MD012388 About the investigators &nbsp; Principal Investigator Lindsey Heibert, PhD, CCC-SLP Assistant Professor, Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders Email:\u00a0Lindsey.Hiebert@nau.edu Co-Investigator Gerald Wood, PhD Associate Professor, Department of Educational Leadership Email: Gerald.Wood@nau.edu Back to PPP Years 8 &amp; 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2745,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ppp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2745"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10632"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10638,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10632\/revisions\/10638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/sherc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}