Archive for February 2024
Start Talking – Confident Speakers and Confident Thinkers
The Issue: We have known about “The Word Gap,” for 20 years. Risley and Hart[1], in their ominously titled study, “The Early Catastrophe,” found that children from disadvantaged backgrounds hear, on average, 30m fewer spoken words by the age of 3 than their more advantaged peers. Unsurprisingly, that is mirrored in the way children speak and…
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