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The founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Effort, Professor Dana Suskind, talks about why the most important - and astoundingly simple - thing you can certainly do for your child's future success in life is to speak to her or him, reveals the recent technology behind this real truth, and outlines the way in which parents can best put it into practice. The research is in: Academic accomplishment begins on the first day of life with the first expression said by way of a cooing mother soon after delivery. A report by analysts Betty Hart and Todd Risley in 1995 found that some children observed 30 million fewer words by their fourth birthdays than others. The children who observed more words were better well prepared when they joined university. These same kids, when followed into third grade, acquired bigger vocabularies, were more robust readers, and acquired higher test ratings. This disparity in learning is known as the achievement gap. Professor Dana Suskind, MD, discovered of the 30-million word gap throughout her are a cochlear implant physician at School of Chicago Medical College and began a fresh research program along with her sister-in-law, Beth Suskind, to find the best ways to bridge that gap. The Thirty Million Word Initiative has developed programs for parents to show the kind of parent-child communication that allows ideal neural development and has tested the programs around Chicago across demographic communities. They boil down to getting parents to follow the three Ts:
- Tune in to what your son or daughter is doing
- Chat more to your son or daughter using plenty of descriptive words
- Take converts with your son or daughter as you take part in conversation.
