In the article Rx: Read to Your Baby, doctors say that parents should read to their babies. Therefore, in a program called Reach Out and Read, doctors are giving books out to parents of low-income. They are trying to influence parents to read more to their children. There were many benefits that a child receives that this article stated. It said that babies that were read to, by the age of three those babies had a vocabulary of 1,100 words compared to babies that didn’t get read to be 525 words. “It’s a big cognitive, developmental and communicative step. It’s a huge step for a baby.” I thought this was interesting to read because in one of my classes we were talking about on average, in toddlerhood, how many words a child should have in their vocabulary and what can factors can influence this. It was great to see that there is a program out there that is trying to help families that can’t afford books.
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