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Nemours BrightStart!
early literacy curriculum
is available online.
Online Training Solutions
Tools & Services
Nemours BrightStart! offers tools for health professionals to establish a dialogue with parents and offer children the best opportunity for long-term reading success.
We’ve designed various tools and educational options for health professionals related to reading development, dyslexia, and the role that health professionals can play in talking with parents about these important topics.
Health Care Professional’s Toolkit
Nemours BrightStart! created this Toolkit to assist pediatricians, family practice physicians, and others in identifying youngsters who may be at risk for dyslexia and reading failure, and in counseling families on this important topic.
The Toolkit will help you:
- recognize the warning signs for dyslexia and other barriers to reading readiness in kids
- 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
- enhance the family/physician relationship by increasing helpful dialogue on this topic
Contents of the Toolkit
Call (877) 878-3118 to purchase the Toolkit or to schedule a presentation.
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 8 years old. The guide also includes
useful references and resources.
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4-Year-Old Ready Reader Check-Up
Stick this chart sticker to your 4-year-old patients’ charts. Use the questions on the sticker for conducting visits with any preschool-age child.
- View Chart Sticker Image (PDF)
Roadmap of Reading Readiness Milestones
A fun poster that contains milestones (by age)
for early literacy skills as well as warning signs that
parents should be aware of along their child’s road
to reading readiness.
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Prescription for Reading Success
The prescription/referral pad enables health care professionals to offer suggestions and resources
for any parent of a preschool-age child.
Early Literacy Skills and Activities Magnet
The magnet contains information for parents related
to important early literacy skills as well as suggested activities to encourage reading readiness.
Nemours BrightStart! Brochure for Parents
Our brochure, for health care professionals to give to parents, contains information about the Nemours BrightStart! program.
- Download Brochure (PDF Version)
Call toll-free (877) 878-3118 to Order the Toolkit
Continuing Medical Education
Nemours Offers Continuing Medical Education (CME) Opportunities
“Identification and Treatment of Young Children at Risk for Reading Failure” (Credit: 1.0). This unit discusses risk factors, warning signs, research-based intervention strategies, and the role of pediatricians in addressing reading failure in children.
University of Florida Pediatric Resident Visits
Once a month, Nemours BrightStart! hosts a University of Florida Pediatric Resident at our office in Jacksonville, FL. The pediatric residents are able to learn about the different components of Nemours BrightStart!, meet with Nemours BrightStart! Associates and observe an in-office screening or instruction of a 4-year-old (when available).
If you are a medical resident or student attending another university, with an interest in pediatric medicine, and would like to visit Nemours BrightStart!, please call us at (904) 697-5125 or (877) 878-3118.
Resources
Administrative Details
The CDC has detailed information about billing and coding for developmental screening.
Online References and Resources
- International Dyslexia Association
- Nemours' KidsHealth.org
- Learning Disabilities Online
- The Library of Congress
- National Association of School Psychologists
- National Center for Learning Disabilities
- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- National Institute of Neurological Disorders
- Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities, Inc.
Recommended Reading
- “Overcoming Dyslexia,” by Sally Shaywitz, MD, 2003
- “Straight Talk About Reading,” by Susan L. Hall and Louisa C. Moats, 1999
- “What is Dyslexia?” (PDF)
Contact Us
Jacksonville
10140 Centurion Parkway North, Jacksonville, FL 32256 (Get Directions)
Phone: (904) 697-3118 or toll-free (877) 878-3118
Email: nemoursbrightstart@nemours.org
Orlando
9145 Narcoossee Road, Orlando, FL 32827 (Get Directions)
Phone: (877) 878-3118 (toll-free)
Email: nemoursbrightstart@nemours.org
Delaware Valley
49 Fallon Avenue, Seaford, DE 19973 (Get Directions)
Phone: (877) 878-3118 (toll-free)
Email: nemoursbrightstart@nemours.org
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Risk Factors for
Reading Problems
Get the facts on risk factors for reading problems to help put all kids on the path to reading success, right from the start.