More Words = Enhanced Language Development
Studies have proven that the sheer quantity of
words your child hears every day from birth to age 4 directly impacts his or her language development and academic success.
- Researchers Dr. Betty Hart, Ph.D., and Dr. Todd Risley, Ph.D., conducted painstaking research over
almost a decade to learn why some children do better than others in school. They found that the quantity
of talk a child experiences directly correlated with the child’s IQ and vocabulary size. No other variable,
including parents’ educations or socioeconomic status, predicted a child’s IQ and vocabulary as well as the
quantity of talk the parents had with their child.1
- After the first three years, it is virtually impossible to close the gap with children whose parents
have provided an advantage.
NOTE: Generally, the more vocabulary a
child is exposed to early on in life, the higher their IQ will be. Children in the "Enriched Language Environment" had IQs ranging up to 142.
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