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“Critical period” is a concept that comes to us from biology. It is a window of time in which some important aspect of development occurs, and it has a definite beginning and end….In human beings, damage at a critical period needs to be extreme—like consuming medicines that damage the fetus—to have an effect on the child from which he or she cannot recover.

Quote ID: 02860

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Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, Roberta Golinkoff

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