Expanding the Frame for a New Generation of Word Gap Research
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CRE #2: PC TALKImpacts of a Parent-Implemented Language Intervention on Children's Language Development Within Home Visiting Jill Pentimonti, PhD; Danielle Shaw Attaway, PhD; Michael Harris Little, PhD; Aleksandra Holod, PhD; Virgina Buysse, PhD; Dale Walker,...
Talking to Children about COVID-19
Stress, Resilience, and the Role of Science: Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic
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 adult-child conversation and connections between brain regions critical for the comprehension and production...
Talking with Babies Linked to Language Skills and IQ in Late Childhood, LENA Researchers Find
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...
An important response to recent critiques of Hart and Risley’s original research identifying the 30 million word gap
"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...
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 lives of young children from...
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Educare Dale Walker, Kathryn Bigelow, Eugenie Lee Matula, Mark Nagasawa, Caron Calhoun, Nicole Kirkland, Diane Horm, Heather Schrotberger, Jessica Haremza This project brings together three Educare Schools in partnership to demonstrate the...