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===Time Is Not on Your Side=== Josh’s success was not a fluke. His father did three things that worked in Josh’s favor. One, Alex realized that something in Josh’s world was keeping him from learning to speak—or interact with others in any way. Two, Alex was there for Josh to listen to his needs and make the changes. Finally, Alex didn’t wait: Josh made a series of breakthroughs before the critical age of five. Is there something magical about the number five? Neuroscience says yes, there is. The extraordinary [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity neuroplasticity] of the human child does not last forever. You may know from experience that it’s easier to learn a second language at a young age than later in life. However, as long as you’re willing to work at it, you can learn a foreign language at any age. Not so with your first language. The evidence is overwhelming that we need to start working on it before age five. Remember the children who lost the left hemisphere of the brain and made full recovery? When the same procedure was performed on children older than five, they suffered a permanent loss of combinatorial language and related skills. In their case, the brain wasn’t able to rebuild the combinatorial language circuitry, as it did in younger children—proof that age five, or thereabout, is a “hard” deadline for acquiring language. Similarly, a group of Romanian orphans placed in good foster care before age two completely escaped the consequences of earlier neglect. These and many other studies point to a special season for laying the foundation of combinatorial language. It runs between the ages of two and five—the period when every child develops high-speed connections between the front and the back of the brain. By the end of this critical period, not only will your child acquire a new set of skills, he will clear out the obstacles that keep the learning process from taking place. He cannot do it on his own. He needs an environment that speaks to him while at the same time prompting him to change—until solid connections are formed in the brain. That is your job. It starts now. It is not simply better to start early, it is your child’s only chance. ---- <div style='text-align: left;float:left;width:33%;'>[[Foreword | Previous Chapter]]</div> <div style='text-align: right;float:right;width:33%;'>[[Chapter 2 | Next Chapter]]</div>
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