When toddlers who grow up in disadvantaged homes reach the age of two or three, they have already fallen behind their peers at the age of birth to the age of two-years-old, who come from privileged homes, in terms of linguistic advancement.
Positive relationship between maternal education and childhood language development
Highlighting the gaps in language skills among children from different socioeconomic backgrounds, the study discovered that there is a positive relationship between maternal education (the level of education that the person raising the child has) and early childhood language development.
Dr. Yair Sadaka, director of the Health Ministry’s Child Development Institute in Beersheba and a researcher at the KI Institute and Ben Gurion University, commented: “The study’s findings align with the international literature, highlighting a notable rise in language and developmental disabilities in recent years.