Speech with Lisa

It's disability pride awareness month! Celebrate by reading one of the books suggested by the New York Public Library. I am reading Paperboy by Vince Vawter about a boy who stutters. I love the book, and I identify with the story of a boy who is misunderstood because of his disability. Prayers for everyone who has a disability and may have been misunderstood or mischaracterized because of it, and prayers for all those who work with people who have disabilities. If you would like to advocate for having a disability specialist in your church congregation so that more people can be included in your gospel activities, check out the following: https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/callings/disability-specialist?lang=eng. I personally believe that having ward and stake disabilities specialists would result in exponential growth of wards and stakes since up to one in four adults in the United States have some type of disability. https://www.nypl.org/blog/2022/07/01/celebrating-disa...

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  Jim Trelease has written a great book called The Read-Aloud Handbook .  He published the seventh edition in 2013, and an eighth edition titled Jim Trelease's Read-Aloud Handbook  was published in 2019.  In the seventh edition, Jim Trelease tells the story of a boy from Russell, Kentucky, a town with a population of 3645, who scored a perfect 36 on the ACT.  People wanted to know what prep course he had taken.  The prep course consisted of the parents reading to their children for 30 minutes a night, event after their sons had learned to read.  This reading aloud experience translated into a love of books, and the home was full of books.   Jim Trelease also talks about an admissions director from Amherst College who says he's never met a student with a high verbal SAT score who wasn't a passionate reader, and nearly all of those students recall being read to.   Jim Trelease points to these numbers:  Children spend 900 hours a ...

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