Toddler speak 'key to school success' [eecho.ie]
- Published: 30 June 2011
Children who struggle to speak at the age of two are less likely to do well when they start primary school, research suggests.
It also found that children who own more books and are taken to the library as toddlers are more likely to achieve higher scores when they start school.
The study, by researchers at the University of the West of England, Bristol University, Sheffield University and Edinburgh University, looked at how the environment in which a child learns to communicate affects how ready they are for school.
The findings show that children’s understanding and use of words, and their ability to say two or three word sentences by the age of two was strongly associated with their performance when they started school.
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