by bcisler | Sep 21, 2018 | News, Uncategorized
Groundbreaking Neuroscience Research Finds Talking with Young Children Improves Language Regions of Developing Brain In a recent neuroimaging study of 40 children published in the Journal of Neuroscience, researchers have identified a positive relationship between...
by bcisler | Sep 13, 2018 | Home Page Feed, News, Uncategorized
Talking with Babies Linked to Language Skills and IQ in Late Childhood, LENA Researchers Find According to a longitudinal study published in Pediatrics, “Language Experience in the Second Year of Life and Language Outcomes in Late Childhood,” a child’s language...
by bcisler | Aug 23, 2018 | News, Uncategorized
“Home is where our story begins…” so the argument that a child’s early experiences at home perpetuate social inequality is understandably contentious. That controversy garnered new attention in 1995 when researchers Betty Hart and Todd Risley reported that...
by bcisler | Aug 21, 2018 | News, Uncategorized
5 Common Myths About the Word Gap Starting with Hart & Risley’s original findings that later became termed the 30 million word gap, early childhood researchers have been presented with an incredible opportunity to ameliorate some important discrepancies in the...