[NIFL-FAMILY:1911] RE: What do babies think?

From: Debbie Nichols (dnichols@famlit.org)
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Hello NIFL Family Literacy Colleagues, 
Thanks Meta. Does anyone else have a new article or Web resource of
relevance to family literacy that you'd like to share? 

I have an important message from the Barbara Bush Foundation for Family
Literacy for those of you in Maryland:

The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy is proud to announce its
first annual Maryland Grant Competition. For 14 years, the Barbara Bush
Foundation has helped non-profit and public organizations around the U.S.
expand the literacy horizons of parents and their children.  Using the funds
that are raised at the annual Maryland Celebration of Reading, which will
take place on March 18, 2005, the Foundation will make available a total of
$500,000, to organizations seeking to promote family literacy in the state
of Maryland.  Each organization is eligible to receive a total award of up
to $50,000, to be used to develop or expand a family literacy program in the
state of Maryland.  The Maryland grant application is now available online
at www.marylandfamilyliteracyinitiative.org.  Any public or non-profit
organization that has been in existence for at least two years and has
implemented a literacy program designed to help, adults, young children ages
pre-K to third grade, or both, is eligible to apply.  Applications for the
Maryland Grant Competition are due to be submitted online, no later than
11:59 pm, October 1, 2004. 
Tanisha Bynum
Barbara Bush Foundation For Family Literacy
1201 15th Street, NW Suite 420
Washington, DC 20005
tbynum@cfncr.org


Debbie Nichols
Director, Outreach Services
National Center for Family Literacy
325 W. Main St. - Ste. 300
Louisville, KY  40202
Ph: (502) 584-1133 x 152
Fax: (502) 584-0172
E-mail: dnichols@famlit.org



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Family Literacy Colleagues,

Something else to think about in the world of language development:


What Do Babies Think Before They Start Talking? 
Babies as young as 5 months old make distinctions about categories that
their 
parents do not, revealing new information about how language develops in 
humans. The research by Sue Hespos, assistant professor of psychology and
human 
development at Vanderbilt, and Elizabeth Spelke, professor of psychology at 
Harvard University, was published in the July 22 issue of Nature in the
article " Conceptual Precursors to Language."


Meta Potts
FOCUS on Literacy
Glen Allen, VA



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