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The Importance of Reading to Your Child
Our pediatric practice has always had a focus on reading. Not only is it important to encourage your children to read age-appropriate books, but it is also very important to start reading to your children as soon as birth.
Our pediatric practice has always had a focus on reading. Not only is it important to encourage your children to read age-appropriate books, but it is also very important to start reading to your children as soon as birth. By listening to the stories you read, children hear a wide variety of words and this helps kids begin to formulate their own vocabularies.
I found this interesting study that was conducted by Dr. John Hutton, who is a researcher and pediatrician at Cincinnati Children's Hospital with a special interest in "emergent literacy" - the process of learning to read. This research is very exciting and it proves what we have known all along. When it comes to activating a child's imagination and learning centers in the brain, there simply is no substitute for reading to children.
Enjoy,
- Dr. Ellen Glotzbach
I found this interesting study that was conducted by Dr. John Hutton, who is a researcher and pediatrician at Cincinnati Children's Hospital with a special interest in "emergent literacy" - the process of learning to read. This research is very exciting and it proves what we have known all along. When it comes to activating a child's imagination and learning centers in the brain, there simply is no substitute for reading to children.
Enjoy,
- Dr. Ellen Glotzbach
