Overcoming Barriers to Children’s Language Learning

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Child care worker reading a book
Angenita Tanner, a child care worker who signed on with the Service Employees International Union, reads a book to pre-schoolers at her home day care center, Wednesday, July 27, 2005, in Chicago. Nam Y. Huh/AP Photo

How can parents and teachers empower children from low-income backgrounds as well as children with Down Syndrome, autism, and other differences to overcome barriers to learning to communicate? Professor Emerita Peggy Rosin discusses her lifetime career of developing strategies to help children gain the power to use language.

Episode Credits

  • Emily Auerbach Host
  • Emily Auerbach Producer
  • Nigel O'Shea Technical Director
  • Peggy Rosin Guest

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