Counseling see illiteracy of parents often overlook. They refer to inadequate language assistance, so the chances are that their children also fall behind.
At clinics too little account of young parents who have difficulty with reading, writing and understanding language. That put doctors and nurses in the Literacy Week.
This is not only inconvenient - they miss appointments, get letters and opinions do not - but also dangerous. Because if aid workers do not identify illiteracy, they refer parents to utilities. The chances are that their children than tie up with the same problem.
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Recognizing a language delay among parents is difficult, says Laurien Belt, pediatrician at The Hague Laakkwartier. ,, And parents are ashamed, especially natives managed to hide it very well. '' While that is precisely the largest group. Of the 2.5 million illiterate, two thirds of Dutch descent.
Therefore used Belt always pictures as they tell what fruits a baby can eat and how much sugar there are in sweet drinks. The parents of the four-week-old Brayden she explains with a pop out how important it is to regularly lay on his belly the child under supervision. Parents Magali and Raphael from Congo and Nigeria, listening intently. ,, We understand quite well, but it's nice to see it here in the picture, '' said the new mother.
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Although Belt regular children refer to early-childhood, parents often sends them to a language course. While the Maastricht professor of education at lower educated Maurice de Greef recommends that parents be referred as early as possible: ,, It reduces the chance that their children are low-literate '.
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