“Studies show that the average child on welfare is exposed to 616 words per hours, a child in a working class family is exposed to double that (1,251 words per hour), and children in professional families experience 2,153 words per hour. … Vocabulary development during the preschool years is related to success in school.”
(This excerpt was originally published in The Daily Record on Tuesday, May 24, 2016. Click here for full article.)