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Coaching parents on toddler talk to address low-income word gap

PBS NewsHour

Narrator PBS NewsHour

Publisher: NewsHour Productions

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Summary

By age four, toddlers in low-income families hear 30 million fewer words than those in high-income families, according to researchers. As a result, these children tend to have smaller vocabularies and fall behind in reading. Special correspondent John Tulenko of Learning Matters reports on one program in Providence, Rhode Island, that gets low-income parents talking more to their toddlers.
Duration: 8 minutes (00:08:00)
Publishing date: 2019-08-22; Unabridged; Copyright Year: — Copyright Statment: —