April 11, 2014
Dana Suskind, professor of surgery and pediatrics and director of the Pediatric Cochlear Implantation Program at the University of Chicago Medicine, founded the Thirty Million Word program in 2010 to drive awareness of the critical role of spoken language in children's early development.
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U of C Part of Multi-million dollar Language Development Initiative
Low income parents can increase their children’s chances of success simply by engaging them in thoughtful and interactive conversation on a regular basis, according to a 1995 study conducted by child psychologists Betty Hart and Todd R. Risley that found by age 4, children in poverty heard 30 million fewer words than their counterparts in more advantaged families.