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Thursday, 9 January, 2003, 11:15 GMT
Daily grunt parents hold children back
![]() Not enough talking going on
Parents who do little more than grunt at their children every day are damaging their language development, a literacy expert has said.
Alan Wells, director of the Basic Skills Agency, says parents no longer talk to their children and instead just let them sit in front of the television or computer for hours. He called communication in such families the "daily grunt".
Speaking at the North of England Education Conference in Warrington, he said: "At the age when they come into school, many children have very few language skills at all. 'One-word answers' "It's the children sat in front of the TV, children sat in front of the PC, the lack of families having food together, the lack of that sort of conversation.
"That clearly has an impact on their learning as they go through the early stages of school." Mr Wells said he had heard from primary school teachers that children were starting school with worse language skills than in the past. He praised a scheme in Wales set up by the Basic Skills Agency, where parents were taught how to play creatively with their children.
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