Low-income kids face language-learning obstacles at home and at school, a new study contends.
"Children may go from a home with limited physical and psychological resources for learning and language to a school with similar constraints, resulting in a double dose of disadvantage," said study lead author Susan Neuman.
She is a professor of childhood and literacy education at New York University.
Neuman and her colleagues followed 70 Michigan kindergarteners. Half lived in poor areas in Detroit; the others were from more diverse, working-class communities.
The researchers observed the kindergarteners in their homes and schools. They also gauged the youngsters' school readiness skills, including vocabulary knowledge, along with letter and word identification.
Though the quality of language that the children were exposed to differed, the quantity did not.
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