Reach Out and Read

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Reach Out and Read

Reach Out and Read started as a simple solution to an obvious problem: waiting rooms without books. But with the clear knowledge that reading aloud is vitally important to the development of young children, it has grown into an invaluable, ongoing literacy program.Nurtured by the passionate and inspired efforts of many educators, doctors, volunteers, parents, corporations, foundations and politicians, Reach Out and Read (ROR) at Denver Health makes literacy an integral part of pediatric care during the first five years of life. Your donation to this program helps buy books that are distributed by pediatric health care providers to their patients.At each well-child visit from six months to five years, every child receives a book from his/her pediatrician and their parents are encouraged by the physician to take it home and read aloud to their child. Parents learn that this is a simple way to help their children love books and to start school ready to learn.