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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: one_less who wrote (780215)4/16/2014 9:22:35 PM
From: koan  Read Replies (2) of 1578704
 
Is there any more debate needed over the imperative of early childhood development?

New research at Stanford university shows more talking, longer sentences help babies' brains.

"The idea is to connect words and meaning, so the brain becomes primed to learn through context.

You are building intelligence through language is how Stanford University professor Anne Fernald explains it.

And forget dumbed down baby talk, longer more complex sentences are better.

Fernald said by some measures, 5 year olds from low income families can lag two years behind their peers in tests of language development, and achievement gap that is difficult. to overcome.

!!!!!!: Brain scans support the link said Dr. Kimberly Noble of Columbia university medical center. Early experiences shape the connections that children's brains form, and kids from higher socioeconomic backgrounds devote more "neural real estate" to brain regions involved in language development, she found.

How early does the gap appear? Around 18 months. Fernald found low income kids in her study achieved at age 2 the level of proficiency that more affluent kids had reached 6 months earlier!

Also shows the powerful variable learning has on intelligence.
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