Indeed, this becomes doubly imperative for precisely those children
whose verbal abilities are most in need of bolstering, for it is the very act of reading that can build these capabilities... we often despair of changing our students» abilities, but there is one partially malleable habit that will itself develop abilities — reading!
By mid-childhood (age 7), kids
whose moms drank diet sodas while pregnant had poorer
verbal abilities, the study findings reported.