RATE OF AUDITORY INPUT

Oral input to infants
can include several dozen
to several hundred
new phrases per day.
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PETERSON READING

Our electronic recordings provide continuing high-rate input.
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Peterson Reading inputs
at the rate of
10,000 to 12,000
words per hour.

4,000 to 5000
phrases per hour.

500 hours of input
equals 5 million words
equals 2 million phrases.
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MAJOR PROBLEM

Q.
Why do so many persons
claim that the brain
learns more slowly
after the first few months
or age two?

A.
THE RATE OF
ORAL INPUT SLOWS

Here are some
possible reasons why:

1.
Child becomes less dependent on parent.

2.
Child learns
to crawl and walk away.

3.
Parents reduce
the time they
hold the child.

4.
Child has less contact
with parents and phrases.

5.
Parent returns
to older children.

6.
Parent may have
another baby.

7.
Parent returns to work.

Any of the above
can make
the learning rate
drop precipitously.
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