Reach Out and Read (ROAR)

Abbey
Reach Out and Read National Center
Boston Medical Center
One Boston Medical Center
Boston, MA 02118
    Telephone: (617) 414-5701

Program Description

Focus Area     Age Group
Early Literacy, Family Literacy; program operates in a pediatric health care setting with pediatricians and parents     Parents andchildren ages 6 months to 5 years old

Research Description

Outcomes

  • Increased parent literacy orientation with children

Research Category

      5   Local Research (Published evaluation report was reviewed.)

Design

  Other   Comparison of parents who received different levels of exposure to the program.

Multiple Studies

  No  

Sample Size

  >50   Experimental Group=79 parents

Valid/ Reliable
Instrument

  Yes   Structured interview

Results

  Yes   Statistically significant. The effect size was not stated in the research reviewed.

Published

  Yes   American Journal of Diseases of Children, 1991

Follow-up Data

  No   There were no -up studies.

Award

  No   There were not awards to the program.