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It was mentioned as a book by the speaker, and the book's title is based on a study from the 1960s that found that children in poverty heard 30 million fewer words by age three than their more affluent peers.
I am the director of the 30 Million Words Initiative and author of 30 Million Words Building a Child's Brain.
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Episode: Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late? (Rebroad...
It was mentioned as a book by the speaker, and the book's title is based on a study from the 1960s that found that children in poverty heard 30 million fewer words by age three than their more affluent peers.
I am the director of the 30 Million Words Initiative and author of 30 Million Words Building a Child's Brain.
By the end of the age of three, children born into poverty will have heard 30 million fewer words than their more affluent peers.
And how you explain to families and to this country what a rich language environment is is complex. And what we've done in our research program is we've called it down to what we call the three Ts.
Education doesn't start on the first day of school. It starts on the first day of life.
And I truly believe that until we address education as it should be, in a scientific and biological way, right, because learning begins at day one, that we're never going to move the needle.
Episode: 228. Does “Early Education” Come Way Too Late?
It was discussed and highlighted as a recently published book about building a child's brain, specifically relating to language development in the first three years of life.
I am the director of the 30 Million Words Initiative And author of the recently published book 30 Million Words Building a Child's Brain
