Sentences with phrase «language exposure»

The research, which underscores the importance of language exposure in the first months of life, also has far - reaching implications for early language and cognitive development.

Your child will then sign those key words that will become launching pads for language exposure.

The researchers began by looking at language exposure of children 7 to 9 months of age.

From unstable housing and food insecurity to limited language exposure and parents working multiple jobs, students from low - income households may face a variety of potential challenges that impact their learning.

New evidence provides even greater insight into the crucial role of language exposure in infants» first months of life, according to Northwestern University research.

Previous studies have found that 12 sessions over 5 weeks — a total of only 6 hours of foreign language exposure — was all babies needed to start setting those brain development pathways down to learn a second language.

Overall language exposure (combined distant and meaningful speech) increased over time for all infants as they matured.

a project examining the influence of second language exposure on executive functions in young children; and

OCTOBER 13 - 17 Neuroscience 2012 30,000 brain experts descend on New Orleans to cogitate on everything from the ethics of smart drugs to language exposure in the womb.

It really is the quality of language exposure that matters, over and above the quantity of words dumped onto a child.»

My kids are in a Mandarin immersion program in San Francisco (for the mental benefit of language exposure), and his kid is at an immersion program too, as he goes to school at a reservation nearby where he learns the indigenous language: Bribri.

«I think the key takeaway from our study is that it's not the quantity of what the children are hearing; it's the quality of their language exposure that matters.

Hoff and her collaborators suggest that the most cogent explanation would be in the properties of children's input or their language exposure.

In the wake of a 1995 study that found a dramatic gap in the number of words heard by high - and low - income children — the so - called 30 million word gap — much attention has been given to efforts to enrich kids» language exposure.

I would love to expand my language exposure, but I hesitate to trust someone else with my «babies».

One could assume that this is because these children are not getting the language exposure through verbal interaction with their caregivers.