Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children / Edition 1

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Meaningful Differences establishes a scientifically substantiated link between children's early family experience and their later intellectual growth - a link that exists regardless of a child's race. This compelling story describes the authors' years of research as they search for the roots of intellectual disparity. Hart and Risley examined the daily lives of 1- and 2-year-old children in typical American families. They found staggering contrasts at the extremes of advantage - and within the middle class - in the amount of interaction between parents and children. These differences in the amount of early family experience translate into striking disparities in the children's later vocabulary growth rate, vocabulary use, and IQ test scores - critical measures of an individual's ability to succeed at school and in the workplace. Meaningful Differences, the culmination of Hart and Risley's decades of collaboration, reveals profound effects of environment on development.

This major new book describes the parent-child interactions of the language acquisition years, revealing differences in the experiences of one- and two-year-olds from families across a spectrum of socioeconomic status. The authors show how the amount of time parents spend talking to their children in the early years of life directly influences children's future accomplishments.

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Taking on the nature vs. nurture debate, Hart and Risley studied the daily lives of 1- and 2-year-old children in American families of all socioeconomic classes. The families showed huge contrasts in the amount of interaction between parents and children--differences that translated into striking disparities in the children's later vocabulary growth rate, vocabulary use, and IQ scores. The link exists regardless of a child's race, the researchers found, offering an important answer to those such as the controversial authors of The Bell Curve who attribute intelligence to genetics. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781557661975
  • Publisher: Brookes, Paul H. Publishing Company
  • Publication date: 1/1/1995
  • Edition description: New Edition
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 304
  • Sales rank: 209,978
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 9.30 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
About the Authors
Acknowledgments
1 Intergenerational Transmission of Competence 1
2 Sampling Children's Developmental Experience 21
3 42 American Families 53
4 Everyday Parenting 75
5 Quality Features of Language and Interaction 95
6 The Early Experience of 42 Typical American Children 119
7 Accomplishments of the 42 Children at Age 3 and Later 141
8 The Importance of the First 3 Years of Family Experience 175
9 Intervention to Equalize Early Experience 191
References 221
Appendix A: Quality Features 227
Appendix B: Figures 231
Index 255
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