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Date: October 17, 2014 at 8:39 am
As Irma Sanchez, a child care giver at UTEP’s University Heights Early Learning Center, flipped through a book with pictures of wild animals, 16-month-old Diego Jimenez crossed his arms over his chest when he spotted a bear.
“That’s right, there’s a bear!” said Vanessa T. Mueller, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Speech-Language Pathology program at The University of Texas at El Paso, as she held the wide-eyed toddler in her lap.
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