Summary of Dana Suskind's Thirty Million Words

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Parent talk is the most important resource for developing a child’s brain. Without it, children can suffer the lifelong effects of silence. With it, they can soar.
#2 The author is a pediatric cochlear implant surgeon, and he wrote the book on parent talk because he believes that parent talk is the key to helping children hear with a cochlear implant.
#3 The cochlear implant is a surgical procedure that allows deaf people to hear. It was developed in the 1990s, and its significance was increased when it coincided with the development of a neurologic miracle, the universal newborn screening.
#4 The brain and neural structures in the human body are generally unforgiving. From cerebral palsy to strokes, from spinal cord injuries to football-related head trauma, making better rather than correcting tends to be the medical dictum.

Sujets

• General
• Parenting
• General officer

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 30 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669395874
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Dana Suskind's Thirty Million Words
Contents Insights from Chapter 1 Insights from Chapter 2 Insights from Chapter 3 Insights from Chapter 4 Insights from Chapter 5 Insights from Chapter 6 Insights from Chapter 7
Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Parent talk is the most important resource for developing a child’s brain. Without it, children can suffer the lifelong effects of silence. With it, they can soar.

#2

The author is a pediatric cochlear implant surgeon, and he wrote the book on parent talk because he believes that parent talk is the key to helping children hear with a cochlear implant.

#3

The cochlear implant is a surgical procedure that allows deaf people to hear. It was developed in the 1990s, and its significance was increased when it coincided with the development of a neurologic miracle, the universal newborn screening.

#4

The brain and neural structures in the human body are generally unforgiving. From cerebral palsy to strokes, from spinal cord injuries to football-related head trauma, making better rather than correcting tends to be the medical dictum.

#5

The University of Chicago is an island of inequality in a sea of inequality on Chicago’s South Side. The slow start of my cochlear implant program allowed me to see the problems that existed in the children, and how important individual experience can be ignored when large sample sizes are used.

#6

The impact of this force is that it makes us realize the limits of technology. It is not just that my experience with Zach and Michelle made me aware of the limits of technology, but it also made me acknowledge a force that impacts the arcs of all our lives.

#7

The true hearing birthday is the moment the cochlear device is activated. It is a very dramatic moment, and it is invariably followed by, Honey, Honey, do you hear Mommy. Mommy loves you so much, then, when it’s successful, the startled expression of the child followed by a smile, laughter, or even crying.

#8

The ability to hear has a significant impact on the ability to read and learn, which in turn impacts the future prospects of the person hearing loss.

#9

The statistics on the success of deaf children who are born to parents who can communicate with sign language are not representative of those who live in homes rich with the language of native or skilled signers.

#10

The turning point for me was when I saw the puzzle pieces fit together perfectly. I saw the beauty in possibility, and it made me realize what happens when a puzzle piece is missing.

#11

The factors that differentiate Zach’s and Michelle’s abilities to learn are the same that determine reaching learning potentials for all of us.

#12

The reading level in third grade generally predicts the ultimate learning trajectory for all children. In the third grade, Zach is learning and functioning at grade level. Michelle is also in the third grade, but her reading is barely at the level of a kindergartener.

#13

I had never been one of those doctors who wanted to find solutions to the world’s most vexing problems. But after I left the operating room, I began to understand why Michelle’s language had never developed as it should have.

#14

I was always interested in the way children learn language, and I eventually took a class on the subject. I was always alert, waiting for the insights I needed to help the children I cared for.

#15

The importance of the early language environment was understood thanks to a study done in the 1960s by psychologists Betty Hart and Todd Risley. They found that the words a child heard from birth through three years of age could be linked to the predictable stark disparities in ultimate educational achievement.

#16

The work of many dedicated scientists has shown that it takes more than the ability to hear sounds for language to develop. It is learning that the sounds have meaning that is critical. Without a language environment, a child will be unlikely to achieve optimally.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

In 1982, two social scientists from Kansas City, Kansas, asked a simple question: why had their program to help prepare high-risk preschoolers for school failed. It seemed like a perfect solution to a prevailing problem, but it was not.

#2

The failure of the Juniper Gardens Children’s Project could have been attributed to the prevailing answers of the times: genetics or some other unalterable factor. But Hart and Risley were not blithe acceptors of conventional wisdom.

#3

Betty and Todd Risley were romantics, but not head in the clouds romantics. They wanted to solve problems that other people thought were unsolvable. They asked questions that might lead to solutions, and their research showed that there was no literature on the daily lives of babies and young children.

#4

The war of words between Noam Chomsky and B. F. Skinner, debating the importance of language acquisition, did not even mention language exposure as a factor.