SAGA for Toddlers. Supporting Children's Linguistic and Socio-Emotional Development in Early Childhood Education and Care
University of Helsinki
120 participants
Sep 25, 2025
INTERVENTIONAL
Conditions
Summary
The goal of this study is to investigate whether a shared reading intervention including emotion and mind-related dialogues (SAGA for Toddlers) supports the development of 11 to 36 moth-old-children in early childhood education and care. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Does the SAGA model support children's social-emotional development? 2. Does the SAGA model support children's language development? The participating children will attend the intervention at the early childhood education and care. The participating personnel at the early childhood education and care will receive training, implement the intervention, and answer questionnaires. The participating caregivers will attend caregiver-evenings and answers questionnaires.
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Interventions
SAGA for Toddlers includes training sessions and workshops for the ECEC personnel on the mentalization-based shared reading intervention following the SAGA model. During the intervention shared reading sessions (5-10-minutes each) are held for groups of 2 to 3 children for 10 weeks (at least 3 sessions per week) at the ECEC by the personnel. Caregivers are involved in the intervention via caregiver meetings held at the ECEC by the investigators.
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NCT07189104