What is the Shared Reading Project?
For many years, we have known that reading aloud to children is THE key to learning to read. Nevertheless, for many children who are deaf or hard of hearing, the experience of being read to by a parent or teacher may be all too rare. The most common reason they hesitate to read to deaf children is that they are unsure of the best way to do it.

The Shared Reading Project pairs Deaf adult mentors with families that have deaf children and provides them with children’s literature and accompanying sign language videos. This also offers more opportunities for deaf and hard of hearing children to interact with Deaf role models and adults who sign fluently.

Please send an email to programs@dsc.us for more information.