Reading with Your Infant: Tips from Reach Out and Read

Your baby is never too young to be read to! This short video provides tips for reading with infants. http://www.chop.edu/reachoutandread Reach out and Read is a nonprofit organization that gives young children a foundation for success by incorporating books into pediatric care and encouraging families to read aloud together. The Reach Out and Reach chapter at The Children’s Hospital was begun in 1996. At nine primary care practices in the CHOP Care Network, pediatricians and nurse practitioners encourage parents to read to their children and give children a new book at each well visit from ages 6 months to 5 years. Approximately 38,000 books are given each year through the program. Families served by the program read together more often, and their children enter kindergarten with larger vocabularies and stronger language skills, better prepared to achieve to their potential.