SEE - August 15th: For decades, doctors have told parents to talk to kids as often as possible to help build speech and language skills. Now, a new study suggests that how parents talk to children may matter just as much as how much time they spend talking.
"We found that the most relevant component of children's language exposure is not the sheer number of words they hear, but the amount of back-and-forth adult-child conversation they experience," said lead study author Rachel Romeo of Boston Children's Hospital and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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