For our # interview, we interviewed Jennifer Killigrew, the speech teacher at Balsz Elementary School. We started off our conversation by discussing the thirty million word gap. She said the majority of children she has seen over the years come from a lower SES, and she attributes the pattern to, “prenatal care, general health, the age of the mother, and the lifestyle of the family.” My next question I asked was why she thought early intervention is critical, “Early intervention is crucial, because when you’re between the ages of zero-two, you haven’t developed habits yet. It is much easier to develop good habits from day one then it is to stop bad ones that have been developing over the past five or six years.” A common problem she said with
