Marianne Wolfe
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100 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2016
last heard Sep 2016
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It's a pleasure to be back.
Of course, I have a multi factorial response to give you and it's a developmental one.
So pardon me if I give you four different reasons at four different ages.
The first is zero to five.
We know that the gaps really begin
before the children even walk in the kindergarten door.
So what we could do to enhance language development is so simple.
Literally reading to our children, speaking to our children every day, every night is one of the simplest antidote to really the very grievous differences in language in our privileged and underprivileged home.
This is the notorious word gap in which thirty two million less words are heard by children who are between three and four who come from disadvantaged homes.
And it's not just quantitative, it's qualitative as well.
You know, the nature of the language that's being used.
But yes, that's so that's the first, the zero to four.
But if
Absolutely.
There are wonderful things that we can do.
Um and part of it is um due to the pediatricians who are giving these various groups of children um stories that can be read either by the people who are the parents or by librarians or by caretakers or by tapers.
This is the US
This is the US context it's called reach out and read.
But any group can do this.
So there's all kinds of ways we can do that.
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