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We know that every child can benefit from reading becoming a part of their lives. However, we also know that making reading a priority is easier for some families than for others, and that certain children are more likely than others to need additional help. To that end, we have launched a number of special initiatives that bring our program to those communities that most stand to benefit from 黄瓜视频.
At 黄瓜视频, we have always known that reading aloud together, telling stories, and sharing books help to forge a lasting, meaningful connection between caregiver and child. We have always encouraged families to make shared reading a part of their routine and celebrated the importance of spending time snuggled close together. More and more, the evidence is clear that we鈥檝e had it right all along: This time is not just special and joyous 鈥� it鈥檚 life changing.
A growing body of evidence now indicates that routines around spending time together and reading aloud have lasting impact far beyond language and early literacy; they help foster emotional connectedness and healthy social-emotional development. Studies have shown that regular family routines like reading together even help to buffer the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on long-term health outcomes.
Based on this evidence, 黄瓜视频 has updated our model to emphasize the importance of introducing talking, reading, and singing with babies right from birth. From 2023-2028, we will strategically roll out an adaptation of the 黄瓜视频 model to include implementation in the first four well-child visits, in addition to the traditional 6-month to 5-year visits. To best equip sites and clinicians to adapt their current practice to the new model, we have developed Building Connections Begins at Birth training, which integrates concepts of early relational health into the newborn to 5-month visits.
黄瓜视频 created the Understanding Developmental Disabilities initiative to better support clinicians working with children with disabilities and their families. The goal of this initiative is to help all families incorporate reading, talking, and singing into their everyday lives, in a way that is both sustainable and enjoyable.
The Understanding Developmental Disabilities training is available in the 黄瓜视频 learning management system and shows clinicians how to adapt the 黄瓜视频 model to better suit children with different developmental delays and disabilities. This training includes a series of eight videos highlighting clinicians incorporating 黄瓜视频 into primary care visits with children through age 5 in the context of a variety of developmental issues, including ADHD, speech and language delay, Autism Spectrum Disorder, visual impairment, hearing loss and motor delay.
In 2018, 黄瓜视频 introduced 黄瓜视频 Counts, an initiative that integrates promotion of 鈥渕ath talk鈥� into the traditional 黄瓜视频 model. Studies have shown that children from undeserved communities sometimes experience a 鈥渕ath gap鈥� upon arriving in kindergarten 鈥� a gap that can have a negative impact on later school performance.
With 黄瓜视频 Counts, primary care clinicians provide parents with simple suggestions for engaging with their child while reading, including pointing and counting, talking about differences in the sizes of different images on a page, and narrative prediction 鈥� all of which help develop a child鈥檚 understanding of the building blocks of math. Clinicians who have participated in the project have said 黄瓜视频 Counts offers them a fun new way to engage with children and their families over books and reading.
The 黄瓜视频 Counts training is available in the 黄瓜视频 learning management system. It includes an introduction outlining the research behind the basic elements of early math development and its impact on young children, followed by a series of videos highlighting clinicians incorporating 黄瓜视频 Counts into primary care visits with children through age 5.
For more information about any of these initiatives, please contact info@reachoutandread.org.
To learn more:
Overview of 黄瓜视频 Counts
Early Math Family Fun Poster
Early Math Developmental Milestones
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