Projects

Project name
Reading Power for child health (Taalkracht voor consultatiebureaus)

Brief description
Child health centres are visited by virtually all young parents, including low-literate parents. Child health centres are used to giving educational advice to parents. As a result, child health centres can play an important role in recognising low literacy and in referring low-literate parents to courses in reading and writing. To enable physicians and nursing staff of child health centres to recognize low literacy in parents, the Reading & Writing Foundation, in collaboration with other organisations, has developed an information package and organises meetings on the recognition and referral of low literacy.

Objectives

• Children's healthcare centres should become a permanent channel to approach parents on the development of language sensitivity
• Raising awareness in doctors and nursing staff of children's healthcare centres of the effect and scope of low literacy and address them in their role as conductor
• Raise awareness in parents of the importance of reading (to the child)

Partners
CINOP, Stichting Expertisecentrum ETV.nl, ActiZ, VOB, Stichting Lezen, NIGZ, VNG, NDB/Biblion, Expertisecentrum Nederlands, het Nederlands Jeugd Instituut, Sardes, Scem, Ministry of Education, Culture and Science and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.

Milestones

• 8 September 2006 - National exploitation
• 1 December 2007 - Launch website www.taalkrachtvoorconsultatiebureaus.nl
• 11 December 2007 - First meeting regional tour
• 22 April 2008 - First meeting regional tour 2008
• 8 September 2009 - First meeting regional tour 2009

Download the package
Take a look at www.taalkrachtvoorconsultatiebureaus.nl.

More information about this project can be obtained from Mirjam Locadia