(North Carolina Health News)
At the Cone Health Mom+Baby Combined Care clinic in Greensboro, reading is part of every child wellness check. At a recent checkup, family medicine physician Kimberly Newton read from “It’s Bath Time” to a 4-month-old patient. “That’s a donkey.…
Why does Dr. Jawaad Hussain of Cooper Pediatric Care in Camden, N.J., believe that Reach Out and Read should begin at the very beginning of a child’s life? “Starting at birth felt like I was walking in with a present every single visit,” Dr.…
(King 5 News)
Reach Out and Read provides children and families with free books and resources to promote early childhood literacy. It’s an evidence-based model backed by research that proves the importance of reading aloud and the impact it’s had on a child’s brain development.…
(National Native News)
The Indian Health Service is working to provide tens of thousands of children’s books to Native families across the country. The federal agency gave a $200,000 grant to Reach Out and Read, a national nonprofit that integrates reading into pediatric care.…
(Live 5 News)
Reach Out and Read is a nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring every child’s cognitive, social, and emotional well-being by incorporating books into pediatric care. Deb LaRoche, a Program Manager at Reach Out and Read South Carolina, shares how this unique program works, where children visiting the doctor’s office receive age-appropriate, beautifully illustrated, high-quality books.…
(UT Physicians)
Young patients and their families at a UTHealth Houston subspecialty clinic will soon experience the benefits of Reach Out and Read Texas, which is part of a national program that incorporates books into pediatric care for children from 6 months to 5 years old.…
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh senior, Kallena Pluemer, is set to graduate in mid-December, move to Appleton, and start her career as an accountant.…
(UW Oshkosh Today)
A lifelong love of reading led Kallena Pluemer to spend her final weeks at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh organizing a book drive.
The Platteville native and senior accounting major grew up in a home full of books and came from six generations of educators.…
(NBC29)
A program that aims to give children books during doctors visits says it distributed thousands of books in Virginia this year.
Reach Out and Read gives free books to every child up to the age of 5. It says this year, books were distributed during 205 visits.…
(WCNC)
The Reach Out and Read intervention is unique for its unparalleled access to children through the medical home, supporting families through the trusted voice of the medical provider.
At Reach Out and Read, they believe all families should have the tools and information they need to make reading aloud together a daily routine.…