Physicians' Toolkit for Ready Readers

The Physicians’ Toolkit for Ready Readers will help you:

• Recognize the warning signs for dyslexia and other barriers
  to reading readiness in young children;

• Educate parents about early literacy milestones and activities
  to promote reading readiness;

• Build awareness of resources for reading readiness available
  to parents of young children;

• Provide timely referrals of at-risk children for diagnostic
  and therapeutic intervention; and

• Enhance the family/physician relationship by increasing helpful
  dialogue on this important topic.

Toolkit Contents

Dyslexia and Milestones Pocket Guide
	A handy pocket guide intended to equip health care professionals with information related to the warning signs for dyslexia and milestones for reading readiness for children up to eight years old. The guide also includes references and resources for health care professionals and patient families.
4-Year-Old Ready Reader Check-Up
	The chart sticker should be affixed to patient charts of four-year-old children. Questions on the sticker are intended as a guide for conducting visits with any preschool-age child.
Ready Reader Roadmap
	A fun poster that contains milestones (by age) for pre-literacy skills as well as warning signs that parents should be aware of along their child’s road to reading readiness.
Ready Reader Prescription
	The prescription/referral pad enables health care professionals to offer suggestions and resources for any parent of a preschool-age child.
Early Literacy Skills & Activities Magnet
	The magnet contains information related to important early literacy skills as well as suggested activities that parents can do at home with their children to encourage reading readiness.
Nemours BrightStart! Brochure for Parents
	The brochure, for health care professionals to give to parents, contains information about the Nemours BrightStart! program.

If you have any questions or would like to request more information about the Nemours BrightStart! Physicians’ Toolkit for Ready Readers, please call Kathy Ingram at (904) 697-3118 or toll-free (877) 878-3118 or e-mail kingram@nemours.org.