STTA: Houston
Interactive Storytelling
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Brief Overview
This is Stories Through the Ages’ signature project: Interactive Storytelling. The premise of this project is to have senior citizens secluded from the outside world read to young children. This project promotes language arts skills in the listeners and gives coveted social enrichment to the readers.
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Research shows that children need to gain reading proficiency by age nine or risk severe economic and social disadvantages later in life.
According to the Greater Good magazine, seniors “with high levels of social activity have 43 percent less disability than someone who has low levels of social activity, and about half the rate of cognitive decline.”
Both populations served in this project are in need: children who can grow from the rich storytelling and seniors who can interact with the next generation.
Through our interactive storytelling program, we have served children around the nation and even internationally, in cities such as Houston, TX; Sugarland, TX; Katy, TX; Atlanta, GA; Chandigarh, India.
