Danielle’s case does indeed prove it is essential for children to learn and develop language at the early years of life in which the brain is increasingly developing. (In the 1960s, psychologist Harry Harlow put groups of infant rhesus monkeys in a room with two artificial mothers. One made of wire, dispensed food. The other, of terrycloth, extended cradled arms. Though they were starving, the baby monkeys all climbed into the warm cloth arms. "Primates need comfort even more than they need food," Armstrong
Danielle’s case does indeed prove it is essential for children to learn and develop language at the early years of life in which the brain is increasingly developing. (In the 1960s, psychologist Harry Harlow put groups of infant rhesus monkeys in a room with two artificial mothers. One made of wire, dispensed food. The other, of terrycloth, extended cradled arms. Though they were starving, the baby monkeys all climbed into the warm cloth arms. "Primates need comfort even more than they need food," Armstrong