New York Times Article Explores the
"Word Gap" Between Children from
Low-Income and Affluent Families
"Word Gap" Between Children from
Low-Income and Affluent Families
“In the same way that we say you should feed your child,
brush their teeth, you should be stimulating their brain
by talking, singing and reading to them,”
- Ann O’Leary, Director of Too Small to Fail.
brush their teeth, you should be stimulating their brain
by talking, singing and reading to them,”
- Ann O’Leary, Director of Too Small to Fail.
In the New York Times article "Trying to Close a Knowledge Gap, Word by Word," Motoko Rich writes:
Amid a political push for government-funded preschool for 4-year-olds, a growing number of experts fear that such programs actually start too late for the children most at risk. That is why Deisy Ixcuna-González, the 16-month-old daughter of Guatemalan immigrants, is wearing a tiny recorder that captures every word she hears and utters inside her family’s cramped apartment one day a week.
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