What Does Intelligible Speech Look Like?
Malcolm Gladwell reports that it takes 10,000 hours of practice to learn something new. Hart and Risley report that typical children hear about 46 million words by age 4. Dehaene reports that a child needs 20,000 hours of listening as a basis for reading. Pittman reports that children with hearing loss require three times the…
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I had an experience this week that reminded me that too many of us work in silos. I have had double vision for years due to what we could have called a “wandering eye” if I were a little kid. I have seen lots of very good ophthalmologists to whom I complained about the problem…
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