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Kavindya Thennakoon: Building Foundational Skills by a Child’s Tenth Birthday

Kavindya Thennakoon: Building Foundational Skills by a Child’s Tenth Birthday
Kavindya: Thanks for having me, Spiffy! Research shows us that one in every three children born in the developing world don’t reach their full developmental potential, both in terms of their cognitive growth and their social-emotional skills. The ages between 0-10 form the most critical developmental window of a human being’s life—did you know that over 80% of a human’s brain development is done before the age of ten?