Mission

Our mission is to promote reading and improve literacy in Indiana County and surrounding areas. To accomplish this goal, we have formed a partnership with the Indiana Regional Medical Center and the IRMC Physician Group. 

Informational brochures highlighting the benefits of reading to children are made available to all parents during their time as patients on the IRMC Maternity Ward. Before the parent and newborn are discharged from the maternity ward, each family is given a copy of Read to Your Bunny, a children’s story written by award winning author Rosemary Wells. Parents are also given the opportunity to receive a free one year subscription to Babybug, a looking /listening magazine for infants and toddlers.  

History

Literacy Links for Little Ones, Inc. began in 2008 when a group of three seasoned educators noticed the difference between students who start school with a wealth of literature experiences and those who do not. It was agreed that students who enter school with a rich literature and language background experience the most success. 

Conversely, children who have had little exposure to such experiences lack language development and spend their school career playing “catch up”, often requiring remediation and intervention. 

As a way of addressing this problem, these teachers decided to form an organization that would not only educate parents about the importance of reading aloud to children but also provide quality literature that could be used to foster a lifelong love of reading.