Kindergarten Ready: What Really Matters in Child Development
A podcast about child development, birth-to-five, where we explore what really matters, and what it really means to be kindergarten ready.
It's a podcast devoted to understanding and nurturing child development, as guided by developmental science, theory, and research.
Hosted by Dr. Gene Ouellette, Director of the Language, Literacy, Learning Lab at Mount Allison University, Professor of (developmental and educational) psychology, Associate Editor of the Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, researcher, author, former Speech Language Pathologist....... (and father, husband, soccer coach, and lover of weinerdogs too!).
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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 12
- Years Active
- 2020
Brain Words and the Science of Reading
On this episode, I cheat a little and share an interview in which I was the guest- I guess it's role reversal time on Kindergarten Ready: What Really Matters! It's all about the science of reading an…
Shared Reading & Storybooks: What's Up with That?
On this episode of Kindergarten Ready: What Really Matters (#11!) we shift gears once again and do a deep-dive into research methods for studying just what shared (storybook) reading does to a child’…
Parent tips and more...straight from kindergarten teachers!
On this episode of Kindergarten Ready: What Really Matters (#10!) we continue with last episode’s focus on being topical and timely- it is back to school time after all! So this week I hand the mic o…
Kindergarten Readiness in the Traditional Sense...
On this episode of Kindergarten Ready: What Really Matters we switch our focus once again to the title of the podcast- this time kindergarten readiness in the traditional sense. We’ll see what some t…
Let's talk...attachment!
On this episode of Kindergarten Ready: What Really Matters we switch to the social-emotional domain of development and take on a topic that has relevance not only throughout the 0-5 age range, but fo…
Early invented spelling and the developing reading brain
On this episode of Kindergarten Ready: What Really Matters we have our first ever listener requested topic: invented spelling and kid writing! Yay! A topic near and dear to my heart- and brain. We’ll…
Let's talk about babies, speech perception, and babbling.
On this episode of Kindergarten Ready: What Really Matters, we are all about....babies!
This week, we shift the focus age wise, and talk about babies and their amazing speech perception abilities and …
Readiness and Emergent Literacy
On this episode of Kindergarten Ready: What Really Matters we try to better match the content to the podcast title....and talk about what readiness really means... and emergent literacy!
Special than…
Stress, Anxiety, and Uncertainty in COVID times
In this episode, let's talk about stress, AUGH... More specifically, anxiety, uncertainty, and structure for children given stressful situations such as, gee I don't know, how about a global pandemic…
Vocabulary Part II: Techniques to capitalize on daily language learning opportunities
In this episode, I boast of my progress made in overcoming some demons that reside in my version of Garage Band (still a ways to go, but getting there), and we continue the discussion of vocabulary. …
Language development that really matters: Vocabulary!
In this first full-length episode, let's talk about language development, vocabulary, and everyday opportunities to promote learning.
I could have called this episode 'how GarageBand ruined my week'..…
What this show is all about!
Dr. Gene Ouellette introduces the podcast, describing how the focus on developmental science can help us understand what really matters in child development in the first five years, and just what it …