The Sarasota Herald Tribune – Kim Doleatto
“Research on early learning often points to poverty as one of the main predictors of a child’s academic outcomes — the lower the income, the lower the early reading scores, for instance — but there is little known about environmental factors that impact specific parts of the brain. A new study reveals that adult-child conversation, regardless of household income level, may lay the foundation for better lifelong readers and speakers.” (more)