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READ Susan Bookheimer, Ph.D., professor of neuropsychology at the University of California at Los Angeles; Linda Baker, researcher, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; and Susan Neuman, Ph.D., professor of early language and reading at Temple University.
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RHYME Usha Goswami, author of Phonological Skills and Learning to Read; and Peter E. Bryant, Fellow of Wolfson College, Watts Professor of Psychology, Oxford University, author of Developmental Psychology.
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TELL STORIES J.A. Watson and D.T. Allison, authors of The Significance of Adult Storybook Reading Styles on the Development of Young Children’s Emergent Reading, Journal of Reading, 1994; Robert D. Friedberg, Ph.D., author of Storytelling and Cognitive Therapy with Children, Journal of Cognitive Psychotherapy; R. Isbell and S. Raines, authors of Stories: Children’s Literature in Early Education; and Sook-Yi Kim, author of The Effects of Storytelling and Pretend Play on Cognitive Processes, Short-term and Long-term narrative Recall, Child Study Journal.
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TALK Janellan Huttenlocher, Ph.D., head of the developmental psychology program at the University of Chicago; Dr. Patricia Kuhl, neuroscientist, University of Washington in Seattle; Lise Eliot, Ph.D., author of What’s Going On In There? How the Brain and Mind Develop in the First Five Years of Life; and Dr. Betty Hart, professor emeritus of human development at the University of Kansas.
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SING Sylvia Rimm, Ph.D., director of the Family Achievement Clinic at the Cleveland Clinic and author of Raising Preschoolers; Gordon Shaw, Ph.D., Frances Rouscher, Ph.D., University of California, Irvine; and Barbara Willer, Ph.D., deputy executive director of the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) in Washington, D.C.
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DRAW Lea M. McGee, University of Alabama, and Donald J. Richgels, Northern Illinois University, authors of Literacy’s Beginnings: Supporting Young Readers and Writers, Third Edition; Marian R. Whitehead, author of Developing Language and Literacy with Young Children, Second Edition; and Jane Sowers, Ed.D., George Fox University, author of Language Arts in Early Education.
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PLAY William Garrison, Ph.D., director of developmental and behavioral pediatrics at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center; Maria Luisa Escolar, M.D., developmental pediatrician at the University of North Carolina’s Center for the Study of Development and Learning; Susan McQuiston Ph.D., pediatric psychologist at Baystate Medical Center Children’s Hospital; and Lucy Calkins, Ph.D., professor of curriculum and teaching at Columbia University’s Teacher’s College.
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LOVE Gary Chapman, Ph.D., and Ross Campbell, M.D., authors of The Five Love Languages of Children; T. Berry Brazleton, M.D., author of Touchpoints Birth to 3; and Dr. Bruce Perry, author of Childhood Experience and the Expression of Genetic Potential: What Childhood Neglect Tells Us About Nature and Nurture.
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