Nebraska Head Starts Use Vests With ‘Talk Pedometers’ To Boost Early Literacy

On a mid-June morning in the small city of Norfolk, Nebraska, a group of 2- and 3-year-olds clumsily ran around a playroom wearing identical purple cloth vests. As the toddlers babbled to their teachers, a rectangular recording device hidden in a chest pocket captured every word as they asked to go to the bathroom, tal…