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Language linked to crime
By Melanie Defries,
Nursery World,
24 April 2008
Children who fall behind with early language development and social skills may never catch up and are more likely to turn to crime and drugs, former Conservative party leader Iain Duncan Smith has said.
Speaking at a conference last week, Mr Duncan Smith said, 'The evidence shows that if a child is born into a home where they are nurtured, where conversation takes place, where they are read to even at an age where they can't understand, what happens is that the child's brain develops, their social skills develop, they go off to nursery school able to learn from the next phase of their education....
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