March 11, 2024 Bennett, 9, has the best audience to read aloud to. Phoebe the dog offers encouragement and her floppy listening ears. She’s a part of the Reading Paws program in a Murfreesboro, Tennessee, elementary school. A school counselor says having a canine audience somehow makes ...
"Dogs really relax us. They allow us to have fun. They even lower our blood pressure for anybody, really, but especially for kids who are maybe struggling with reading. Doing it to a dog, it just feels good," she said. Researchers at UC Davis found thatkids who read to...
Among the benefits of this type of reading are greater comfort reading aloud, a sense of pride, an increase in self-esteem, and even decreased absenteeism. Those benefits are evident at LaGrange Library in Poughkeepsie, New York, where a reading dog program has been in place since 2008. ...
101. (cover story) Dog Therapy 101. (cover story)Dog Therapy 101. (cover story)The article discusses reading dog therapy programs, in which students read aloud to therapy dogs as a way to increase their reading skills. Topics discussed include the government regulations that make it difficult ...
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Q: I think I am being mentally abused. My husband always makes degrading remarks to me. He gets really irritated at my daughter (his step daughter) and her little dog because it barks to go outside. It's a Maltese and chats how it communicates. He says things like it would… ...
Pictures include the cookie theft (a girl and a boy stealing cookies and a woman washing dishes in the kitchen), the dog story (a boy who hides a dog that he found on the street), the Cinderella story, and so on. Dementiabank [28] is a multimedia interaction for the study of ...
We kept 10 we’d pay for it and would only get it if someone was home, but he just kept repeating 11 he’d already told us.Then as his 12 pit bull dog(牛头犬)came and gave me a 13 on the hand, Dan said, “Come on, boy!” They both 14 racing to the doorway and Dan ...
This study assessed the effect of reading aloud to handler/therapy dog teams on children's oral reading fluency using a post-test control group design with repeated measures. Forty-five children in grades 2-5 were assigned to one of two groups using a stratified random assignment designed to ...
R.E.A.D is a program that promotes children to read by having them read aloud to a trained dog =-=[2]-=-. Children generally have intrinsic affinity towards animals and view them as non-threatening and non-judgmental creatures. In creating a more comfortable and less stressful reading ...