Babies who gesture learn words sooner by Bryan Walsh.
I read in time magazine of February 13,2009 that babies who gestures lean more words, new concepts and have more vocabularies .Psychologists also know that children’s socioeconomic status tend to correlate with their language facility. The better off and more educated a child’s parents are the more verbal that child tends to be by school age. Vocabulary skill is a key predictor for success in school. Children from low-income families, who may often start school knowing significantly few words than their better off peers will struggle for years to make up that ground .Educated parents talk to their children more using complex vocabulary and syntax than parents of lesser means. This is why the richer kids start school with richer vocabularies. Researchers found that at 14 months of age, babies already showed a wide “speaking” ability through gestures .High-income, better- educated parents gestured more frequently to their children to convey meaning and new concepts, and in turn, their kids gestured more to them.
I think the higher the economic stability and the higher the education of a family the better for the children in overall development
the only thing i agree with in this article is that kids that gesture have a better vocabulary i dont believe that economic stability have anything to do with how the children's vocabulary turns out i believe it has to do with how the the child is raised and if the parents spend time and teach them, money has nothing to do with it
ReplyDeleteInteresting article. The thing is, the greater the economic stability, the more time parents have to spend with their children, and the more relaxed or less tense the home atmosphere is. The conclusion isn't well presented, and may not be valid. Hard to tell. But definitely parental attention makes the difference.
ReplyDeleteAnastasia, I think your article choice prompted some serious discussion. Good!
kay