For Parents & Educators
The National Institute for Literacy encourages reading with very young children, “When does a child learn to read? Many would answer kindergarten or first grade. But researchers have found strong evidence that children can begin to learn reading and writing in their earliest years, long before they go to school.”
For struggling readers...
"Poetry is especially suited to fluency practice because poems for children are often short and they contain rhythm, rhyme, and meaning, making practice easy, fun, and rewarding.” Poetry (when the subject matter is appealing) serves to improve both reading and writing skills as its short form enables at-risk students to experience immediate success." ~ National Institute for Literacy
“One of the keys to helping struggling readers is to provide them with books that they can and want to read.” (Rog & Kropp, 2001) Books with a dual narrative where illustrations and text work interdependently, help the child’s visual, mental and verbal imagination and offer success to children frequently accustomed to failure."
"Poetry is especially suited to fluency practice because poems for children are often short and they contain rhythm, rhyme, and meaning, making practice easy, fun, and rewarding.” Poetry (when the subject matter is appealing) serves to improve both reading and writing skills as its short form enables at-risk students to experience immediate success." ~ National Institute for Literacy
“One of the keys to helping struggling readers is to provide them with books that they can and want to read.” (Rog & Kropp, 2001) Books with a dual narrative where illustrations and text work interdependently, help the child’s visual, mental and verbal imagination and offer success to children frequently accustomed to failure."
Pet therapy...
According to journalist Odean Cusack, “Anyone who has ever owned a pet will readily verify the benefits of associating with furred, feathered, or finned friends. Animals are fun to be with and comforting to hold. Pets enable owners to reach outside themselves and to put aside fears of an uncertain future. "Pets live in the immediate moment, and interacting with them makes us keenly aware of the present with all its joys and idiosyncrasies.”
http://www.kidneeds.com/diagnostic_categories/articles/animalassistedtherapy.htm
"A pet is an island of sanity in what appears to be an insane world. Friendship retains its traditional values and securities in one's relationship with one's pet. Whether a dog, cat, bird, fish, turtle, or what have you, one can rely upon the fact that one's pet will always remain a faithful, intimate, non-competitive friend -- regardless of the good or ill fortune life brings us."
http://www.animaltherapy.net/Premise%20&%20Promise.html
Dr. Boris Levinson, child psychologist
According to journalist Odean Cusack, “Anyone who has ever owned a pet will readily verify the benefits of associating with furred, feathered, or finned friends. Animals are fun to be with and comforting to hold. Pets enable owners to reach outside themselves and to put aside fears of an uncertain future. "Pets live in the immediate moment, and interacting with them makes us keenly aware of the present with all its joys and idiosyncrasies.”
http://www.kidneeds.com/diagnostic_categories/articles/animalassistedtherapy.htm
"A pet is an island of sanity in what appears to be an insane world. Friendship retains its traditional values and securities in one's relationship with one's pet. Whether a dog, cat, bird, fish, turtle, or what have you, one can rely upon the fact that one's pet will always remain a faithful, intimate, non-competitive friend -- regardless of the good or ill fortune life brings us."
http://www.animaltherapy.net/Premise%20&%20Promise.html
Dr. Boris Levinson, child psychologist
Horticultural Therapy...
Horticultural Therapy is defined as “a process utilizing plants and horticultural activities to improve social, educational, psychological and physical adjustment of persons thus improving their body, mind, and spirit.” ~American Horticultural Therapy Association.
Horticultural Therapy has been defined as "the use of plants and gardens for human healing and rehabilitation". It is an ancient practice, but a rather new profession. In the early 19th century, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, observed and documented the benefits of working with plants for his patients at his Philadelphia clinic. Horticultural Therapy programs are now commonplace at many different facilities in this country and abroad.
An increasingly large body of research attests to the unique values of horticulture as a therapy for people with physical, mental, emotional, and social disabilities. As plants are non-discriminating and non-threatening, anyone can be successful. It doesn't matter how old or intelligent a person is; their race, religion, and IQ don't matter either. Plants will respond to anyone providing care. Studies show that success with plants can lead to successes in other aspects of our lives. This is important for individuals whose disabilities or limitations might hinder their accomplishments in other pursuits. ~Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
Horticultural Therapy is defined as “a process utilizing plants and horticultural activities to improve social, educational, psychological and physical adjustment of persons thus improving their body, mind, and spirit.” ~American Horticultural Therapy Association.
Horticultural Therapy has been defined as "the use of plants and gardens for human healing and rehabilitation". It is an ancient practice, but a rather new profession. In the early 19th century, Dr. Benjamin Rush, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, observed and documented the benefits of working with plants for his patients at his Philadelphia clinic. Horticultural Therapy programs are now commonplace at many different facilities in this country and abroad.
An increasingly large body of research attests to the unique values of horticulture as a therapy for people with physical, mental, emotional, and social disabilities. As plants are non-discriminating and non-threatening, anyone can be successful. It doesn't matter how old or intelligent a person is; their race, religion, and IQ don't matter either. Plants will respond to anyone providing care. Studies show that success with plants can lead to successes in other aspects of our lives. This is important for individuals whose disabilities or limitations might hinder their accomplishments in other pursuits. ~Rutgers School of Environmental and Biological Sciences
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