Improving early child development with words: Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald at TEDxAtlanta

Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald is leveraging the simple practice of talking to babies and toddlers to nourish their brains and set them up for better performance in school and life. About TEDx, x =...

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Translator: Sylvia He Reviewer: Peter van de VenThank you very much.There is a profound predictor of health and wealththat can be determined by three years of age.And that predictor is language.Language is the essence of what it means to be human.Now, animals may have noises or gestures that they can communicate with,I can assure you my catcan get me up out of the bed at five o'clock in the morningbecause he is hungry,but human beings are much more adeptand much more facile at language.I can tell you that language in the Oxford Unabridged English Dictionary,there are 600,000 different wordsthat American, that English people can know.Lots of people spoke, speak more than one language.So the ability of humans is enormous, you never really and truly seea chimpanzee...