In 1995, the now famous Hart/Risley study was published on the impact of language on young children, revealing that low-income children are exposed to 30 million fewer words than their higher ...

Preschool children who hear parents use words describing the size and shape of objects and who then use those words in their day-to-day interactions do much better on tests of their spatial skills ...

Learning words about size, shape may improve spatial skills in children, which are important in mathematics, science and technology, suggests study.

Research has shown that words describing where objects are in relationship to other things, or spatial words, can support science, technology, engineering, and math knowledge.