M Evangelou, G Brookes, S Smith, D Jennings (2005), University of Oxford
This six-year study of over 600 families compared the development of children and parents who were involved in PEEP and those who were not. The study found that the PEEP parents reported a significantly enhanced view of their parent-child interaction. PEEP parents were also rated significantly higher on the quality of their care-giving environment.
PEEP children made significantly greater progress in a cluster of skills related to future literacy, eg vocabulary, awareness of rhyme and alliteration, letter identification, understanding of books and print, and writing. PEEP children were also rated higher on self-esteem by the age of five years.
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