The Polk County Early Childhood Iowa Board convenes early childhood partners and stakeholders to make investments in initiatives that achieve long term positive results for young children and increases their readiness to enter kindergarten.
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In a study about the importance of talking to young children, researchers Betty Hart and Todd Risley found that by the age of 4, “an average child in a professional family would have accumulated experience with almost 45 million words, an average child in a working-class family would have accumulated experience with 26 million words, and an average child in a welfare family would have accumulated experience with 13 million words.” (Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Lives of Young American Children, Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1995)
