Summarize how living in poverty affects language development.
What will be an ideal response?
- A longitudinal study examined the relationship between living in poverty and language development in children.
- As levels of affluence increased, parents spent more time talking to their children.
- Children of families receiving welfare assistance were exposed to 13 million fewer words by age 4 compared to families with professional occupations.
- Children of families receiving welfare assistance were twice as likely to hear prohibitions compared to children in more affluent families.
- The greater the number and variety of words heard during development, the better children's performance on measures of intellectual achievement.
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