Parent Nation: Unlocking Every Child's Potential, Fulfilling Society's Promise - Dana Suskind

Dana Suskind, MD , is founder and co-director of the TMW Center for Early Learning + Public Health, director of the Pediatric Cochlear Implant Program, and professor of Surgery and Pediatrics at the University of Chicago. Dr. Suskind is the author of over forty-five scientific publications and Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain . She is a member of the American Academic of Pediatrics and a fellow for the Council on Early Childhood. Her work has been profiled by numerous media outlets, including The New York Times , The Economist , Forbes , NPR, and Freakonomics . Lydia Denworth is an award-winning science writer and a contributing editor at Scientific American. She is the author of several books of popular science including Friendship: The Evolution, Biology and Extraordinary Power of Life's Fundamental Bond and I Can Hear You Whisper: An Intimate Journey Through the Science of Sound and Language .