Please contact HIPPY USA, (Home Instruction for Parents of Preschool
Youngsters).  Their web site is www.hippyusa.org
<http://www.hippyusa.org/> .  Gale Hart is their National Program
Director and she has been working with one of the universities in FL on
HIPPY research.  HIPPY is an early intervention program that provides
scripted packets and activities that are brought into the home by highly
trained paraprofessional home visitors.  The learning packets and story
books are highly interactive and provide a great base of readiness
skills in the home.  Many of the children enrolled in HIPPY programs
through out the country are attending prekindergarten, kindergarten, or
center based programs.  In my county school district, we use HIPPY to
work with low performing Title I schools and as the parent child
curriculum for our Even Start Programs.  

 

Nancy Dillon Tobias

Baltimore County Public Schools

HIPPY Program

9610 Pulaski Park Drive

Suite 219

Baltimore, MD  21220

(410) 887-3037 phone

(410) 391-7693 fax

 

The Love of Learning Begins at Home

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From: familyliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov
[mailto:familyliteracy-bounces at nifl.gov] On Behalf Of Gail Price
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 8:44 AM
To: The Family Literacy Discussion List
Subject: [FamilyLiteracy 526] Motivating Parents To Read To Their
Children

 

Before Christmas, I asked if there were any topics of interest or any
questions that you had for the List. I know that was a busy, winding
down for the holidays, so the responses were a little meager. I did,
however, hear from a couple of subscribers-one who had three items
listed that she would like to learn more about and one who had some
thoughts about research relating to parent/child interactive activities.
My response to these subscribers is a bit overdue, so I thought perhaps
focusing on each separately might garner a little more response for each
of their thoughts and requests.

 

So, on behalf of Sara Mansbach, please respond to the following:

I would be interested in learning about motivating parents to read to
their newborn to 4 year old children-what works, what doesn't.

Sara C. Mansbach, D.Ed.

Program Director

Lapsits for Early Literacy

864-414-0875

info at lapsits.org

 

 

Gail J. Price

Multimedia Specialist

National Center for Family Literacy

325 W. Main Street, Suite 300

Louisville, KY 40202

gprice at famlit.org

502 584-1133, ext. 112

 

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