by John Bryant | Sep 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
After decades of collaborating to increase child language vocabulary, Betty Hart and Todd Risley spent 2 1/2 years intensely observing the language of 42 families throughout Kansas City. Specifically, they looked at household language use in three different settings:...
by John Bryant | Sep 22, 2013 | Uncategorized
The achievement gap opens in the earliest years, the period when children’s brains grow fastest. By age three, children of low income families know only half the words of children in more advantaged families. As a result, disadvantaged children can be 18 months...
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