Posted on 04/20/2023 1:25:36 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
New research reveals why some children may be slower to learn words than others.
A study investigates where toddlers look when they learn new words. It finds that children with larger vocabularies looked quickly towards objects when learning new words. Meanwhile, children who knew fewer words looked back and forth between objects and took more time.
Dr. Larissa Samuelson said, "At around two years of age, children start to be quicker to decide what a new word means. We think this is because many of the first words children learn are names for sets of things that are similar in shape—balls are round, cups are cup-shaped.
The research team studied how 66 children aged between 17 and 31 months learned new words in a simple game. They showed the toddlers new objects made from clay, plaster, Styrofoam, yarn and plastic mesh. The researchers then told the children the names of the new objects and asked them what other things might also be called by those names.
Crucially, the team filmed where the children were looking throughout the task.
Dr. Samuelson reported, "We found that children who can say more words quickly looked towards objects that were the same shape as a named object. Children who knew fewer words looked back and forth between the objects and took more time.
"At the moment you can't diagnose children with Developmental Language Disorder until they are three or four.
"Our research has previously shown that we can boost word learning in children by helping them learn what to pay attention to when they hear a new word. If we can figure out which children need this support earlier, we can help them build their best vocabulary and be more ready to enter school with the language skills they need."
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
That’s a huge improvement, and you can set up a similar experiment with simple things, in your own home.
What is Einstein syndrome?
“Einstein syndrome is a condition where a child experiences late onset of language, or a late language emergence, but demonstrates giftedness in other areas of analytical thinking. A child with Einstein syndrome eventually speaks with no issues, but remains ahead of the curve in other areas.”
https://www.healthline.com/health/einstein-syndrome#what-it-is
If your kid isn’t speaking she could be stone deaf. Nobody believed me, not even the doctor. I said she was deaf and then the hearing test. I was right.
66 children? Pretty small sample size.
I wonder if she was any good in the sack! Although Willie was 30 years older so maybe he just felt lucky to have someone who didn’t use Depends.
can they use this new learning information to help Fetterman?
LMAO
We don’t want them to be TOO quick. If you say “man”, and “woman”, you want them to shift back and forth, back and forth, back and forth, and then say “I’m not a biologist.”
Biden’s speeches shows why some children may be slower to learn words and some never pick up on them.
Personal note: my son, who is nearing 40 and has been a certifiable genius throughout his life, did not speak until he was turning two. Then, in the course of two weeks, he went from one syllable, to basic nouns and pronouns, to complete sentences—and he was reading kindergarten books by himself when he turned 3. If was as if he wasn’t going to start until he had all his verbal ducks in a row.
Edward Teller did not speak at all until after his third birthday.
When he did finally speak, it was complete sentences.
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