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Suskinds lectures stress the importance of early language exposure for developing children and draw on her own experiences with patients and neuroscience research. Parents, policy makers and educators, this book is for you. James heckman, university of chicago, nobel laureate dr. Dana suskind is a physicianscientist at the university of chicago. We personally assess every book s quality and offer rare, outofprint treasures. Thirty million words project shows importance of talking.
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