Huge ‘word gap’ holding back low-income children may not exist after all
A study contests the idea that poor kids hear fewer words than kids from higher-income families
WORD UP A previous report that primary caregivers speak an average of 30 million more words to young children in middle-class and wealthy families, versus youngsters in poor families, doesn’t hold up on closer inspection, a new study finds.
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