Coaching Parents on Toddler Talk to Address Low-Income Word Gap
(2019)
By:
PBS Newshour
Nonfiction
eAudiobook
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PUBLISHED
[United States] : NewsHour Productions, 2019
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EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (8 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781987141122 MWT18587290, 1987141121 18587290
LANGUAGE
English
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Read by PBS Newshour
By age four, toddlers in low-income families hear 30 million fewer words than those in high-income families, according to researchers. As a result, these children tend to have smaller vocabularies and fall behind in reading. Special correspondent John Tulenko of Learning Matters reports on one program in Providence, Rhode Island, that gets low-income parents talking more to their toddlers
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