Community program focuses on building language skills.
Dr. Shurita Thomas-Tate, assistant professor of communication sciences and disorders at Missouri State University, is helping Springfield’s NAACP chapter implement NAACP Reads.
Getting ready for the first day of kindergarten should be a process of talking to and reading to children regularly from birth. Dr. Shurita Thomas-Tate is helping implement NAACP Reads to increase the number of students who are ready to learn in kindergarten with a particular focus on children from low-income families and minority families.