![]() Recent preliminary trials have showed that parents and caregivers who received this quantitative linguistic feedback spoke and interacted more with their children. Quantitative feedback gleaned from weekly recordings of the home language environment is provided to parents to help monitor progress and set goals. Home visits from coaches, animations that make the underlying science of the project accessible, and videos teaching easy-to-follow strategies lay the foundation for parents to enhance their linguistic interaction with their children. TMW combines education, technology, and behavioral strategies in an interactive multimedia curriculum for parents. ![]() Suskind created TMW in 2010 to address this gap by bringing awareness to the importance of spoken language in early childhood development and giving parents the tools and knowledge to enrich their children’s home language environment. ![]() Furthermore, this early language exposure is correlated with income: children from lower-income households hear, on average, about thirty million words fewer than their peers from more affluent homes during this critical developmental period, leaving them less likely to achieve academic success. ![]() Studies have demonstrated that the number of words a child is exposed to before the age of four is significantly correlated with the child’s eventual IQ and academic outcomes. ![]()
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