NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.
My column: https://t.co/dBIhT9eZLv
And some utterly damning charts.
1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.
On this day in 1916, Ota Benga, an African native who suffered inhumane treatment by being kept in a zoo, committed suicide.
He had been kidnapped in 1904 from Congo, and taken to America and exhibited at the Bronx Zoo with monkeys.
A THREAD!
How do caregivers engage & scaffold children's language? Does that help us predict language development above and beyond traditional predictors (linguistic, sociocognitive individual differences, richness of linguistic input)? Finally out in Cognition (https://t.co/xIvxR2jT69)
If you use terms like “special needs/special educational needs” or similar, now would be a great opportunity to commit to switching them out for “disabled” ❤️♿️