Dec 29, 2013 ... It turned out, by the age of 3, children born into low-income families heard  roughly 30 million fewer words than their more affluent peers. Research since  then has revealed that the "word gap" factors into a compounding achievement  gap between the poor and the better-off in school and life. The "word gap" ...
Dec 4, 2013 ... And greater inequality is associated with less mobility between generations. That  means it's not just temporary; the effects last. It creates a vicious cycle. For  example, by the time she turns three years old, a child born into a low-income  home hears 30 million fewer words than a child from a well-off family, ...
Feb 16, 2014 ... By age three, children from lower income families may hear up to 30 million fewer  words than their more affluent peers. ... According to Fernald, five-year-old  children of lower socioeconomic status (SES) score two years behind on  standardized language development tests by the time they enter school.
Nov 3, 2015 ... Studies show that children in poor families are spoken to less often. By the time  they're 3, according to one famous estimate, they have heard 30 million fewer  cumulative words than kids who come from wealthier homes. They can suffer, like  children born without hearing, from what Suskind calls the lifelong ...
Sep 27, 2013 ... Their landmark study in the 1990s found that a child born into poverty hears 30  million fewer words by age 3 than a child born to well-off parents, creating ... They 've completed the first trial of their Thirty Million Words Project, in which Suskind's  staff visited the homes of low-income mothers on the South Side ...
By the time she turns 3 years old, a child born into a low-income home hears 30 million fewer words than a child from a well-off family.