How does poverty affect a child's language development?
What will be an ideal response?
Children from persistently poor families are at risk of deficits in cognitive and language development. They tend to know fewer words, use a smaller variety of words, produce shorter utterances, and demonstrate less developed syntax than peers in relatively advantaged homes. Children from low-socioeconomic homes tend to be exposed to fewer words, so their vocabularies and language processing efficiency suffer. The quality of parent-child interaction is negatively affected by emotional resources, which are often compromised by poverty. Household chaos, including excessive noise in the home or the neighborhood, household crowding, household moves, adults moving in and out of the home, and changes in authority figures, affects children's cognitive and language development by overwhelming them with too much stimulation. Some children withdraw from overstimulation, which can further interfere with parent-child interactions that promote language development.
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According to your text, the real issue in testing is
a. how reliable tests are. b. whether tests have predictive validity. c. what tests actually measure. d. how tests are used.
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Indicate whether the statement is true or false
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