She is part of a project called the Thirty Million Words Initiative, developed at the University of Chicago after researchers found that children in poor households often hear fewer words spoken ...

Thirty million words is probably an exaggeration ... particularly when the samples don't contain the same number of words. He is one of many to have pointed out that the low-income families ...

And language reflects the reality of numbered quantities. We have a broad array of words for numbers: I can count from zero to 10, and beyond, using number words, and there are other quantifiers ...

For Suskind, her book Thirty Million Words: Building a Child’s Brain (Dutton, 2015), is an extension of the program. It is aimed at helping parents understand that they are “the key architects ...