Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD
UW- Madison School of Medicine and Public Health

Books Build Better Brains: How Promoting Literacy is Key to Early Brain and Child Development

Dr. Navsaria will discuss the critical importance of the first thousand days of life and the key role human relationships and interactions play in that time period, along with the concepts of toxic stress and how early adversity leads to lifelong issues. The importance of early literacy, along with key concepts about literacy development will be reviewed.

Dipesh Navsaria, MPH, MSLIS, MD is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health. He practices primary care pediatrics at a federally-qualified health center in South Madison. He is the founding medical director of Reach Out and Read Wisconsin and the founder and director of the Pediatric Early Literacy Projects at the University of Wisconsin. With respect to education, Dr Navsaria is heavily involved in advocacy training for the pediatric residents and medical students and is frequently involved in medical student and physician assistant education from the clinical arena through myriad small group and lecture formats. He is also the director of the MD–MPH program at the University of Wisconsin.  He regularly writes op-eds on health- related topics, does radio and television interviews, and frequently speaks locally, regionally and nationally on early brain and child development, early literacy, and advocacy to a broad variety of audiences. He also has a modest professional presence on social media.

Website: http://www.navsaria.com
Twitter: https://twitter.com/navsaria
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrLibrarian

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March 10, 2018

Tweety Yates, Ph.D.

Happy, Frustrated, Excited, Worried: What's That Go to Do With Literacy and Math?

The early childhood years are critical for giving children the positive start in life that they deserve. YOU play an important role in making this happen!  Intentionally interweaving areas such as literacy, math, and social emotional development across your daily routines and schedules can increase the opportunities for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers to be successful. Let’s use our time together to reflect on the great things you are already doing, while expanding your toolbox of ideas, strategies, and resources! Small changes can have a big impact!

Dr. Tweety Yates recently retired from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Although retired, she continues to do work around supporting infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families for the University of Illinois as well as Vanderbilt University. She is also part of the Pyramid Consortium Leadership Team for promoting high fidelity use of the Pyramid Model for Supporting Social Emotional Competence in Infants and Young Children. Through previous projects, Tweety has developed numerous materials for teachers, childcare providers, home visitors, parents, directors, and early childhood faculty.  She has provided professional development on topics related to infants, toddlers, preschoolers and their families for over 35 years. She has worked as a teacher, home visitor and facilitated parent-child groups.