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Betty Hart Dies at 85; Studied Disparities in Children's Vocabulary Growth

New York Times

Betty Hart, whose research documenting how poor, working-class and professional parents speak to their young children helped establish the critical role that communicating with babies and toddlers has in their later development, died on Sept. 28 in hospice care in Tucson. She was 85.


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