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Kaplan makes this one a bit tough in stating that “…sensitive period for language development…before the onset of puberty.

Buuuuut, while the UWorld textbookts don’t explicitly state the window, they do have a graph that includes up to 18 years of age:

My instinct here might be, rather than tacking it onto the Text field, just to hedge our bets by appending a note in the Extra field, something to the effect of:

  • The critical period of language development runs from birth until 18 years of age, peaking around ages 8-9.

This would be one of those things where an image (graph) in the Extra field might be an immediate homerun, tbh. @pkaps01 you got anything like that up your sleeve, by chance?

Got the same question wrong for the same reason and yes I can cook up a similar graph.

Same, actually. I remember it for that reason, and being more than a little irked as a result