For Patients and Families

The ROR model has three components:

• At each check-up between the ages of 6 months and 5 years, children receive a brand new, developmentally, and culturally appropriate book from their primary care provider to take home.

• Physicians and nurses are trained in literacy development to provide parents with guidance and support around the importance of reading to their children.

• Volunteers read aloud to children in the clinic waiting room and demonstrate appropriate reading techniques and modeling for parents.

We have also provided approximately 43,000 brand new books to our patients since the program's inception, and an additional 720,000 gently used books through donations.