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Jessica Lahey explains in "Poor kids and the word gap" children who come from wealthy families and children who come from families who live in poverty have different learning skills and expectations. Children who are raised in poverty attend school with a series of poor skills that continues into adolescence. While children who come from a background of educated parents and who are wealthy, are the ones who are more prepared to continue higher levels of school. Lahey goes into detail, expressing how researchers call it "the word gap." Parents who acquire a greater income, spend more time each day teaching and reading to their children in direct contact. The others who come from poor income families do not spend as much time engaging in teaching their children. Poor learners demonstrate in school expressing how they do not read books. Lahey believes "because the word gap first appears during periods of critical neurological and cognitive development, it's effects cannot be easily remedied by later interventions." Only the child's parents are responsible to help their children excel in the proficiency of math and reading. Lahey also explains that in a recent study "low - income parents underestimate their power to influence their children's cognitive development, sometimes by as much as 50 percent." Educated parents invest in their child's cognitive growth by being more involved with their children and engaging more time of teaching them. Lahey expresses, Obama created support programs to help children from low income families to perform better on their skills of English language acquisition.
In "Language Acuisition" Betty Birner explains that children learn how to communicate from interacting with their parents and from other children around them. Birner believes while parents interact and speak to their children more, the children will acquire language skills. There is not a specific age of when children learn to communicate. Birner expresses that when a child begins to utter, he or she has employed sounds and rhythm of communication for months. Children learn language skills in certain levels and in these levels children acquire cognitive skills at different periods. When children attend kindergarten, they have learned methods and sounds of speech. After this level of communication, Birner explains that children just have to connect sentences in newer fashion and increase their vocabulary. Language is genetic because the child learns how to communicate whether if their parents are teaching them or not.
In "Poor children a year behind in language skills" the Sutton Trust charity explains how children who come from low income families struggle with their skills and they face many difficulties learning. While when parents read to their children daily, the children tend to perform better on tests. Making visits to the library helped sharpen children's learning by "2.5 months." The children who come from the low income families, have parents who did not receive "A-C grades." When children who come from wealthy families had a parent who is educated and completed a high degree. Some children who come from poor families do not live with their biological mother and father. Some live with a single parent. The charity is imploring the government to set up free education for younger children who face hardships in learning and the charity wants to provide classes to low income parents on ways to improve parenting.
