The lives of million of Syrian children have been disrupted by their commonwealth ’s on-going civil war . As a result of this crisis , refugee from Syria have poured into camps in neighboring countries like Jordan , where children might not have an sales outlet to sue their feelings or painful experience .
grant toThe New York Times , an innovative indication broadcast in Jordan is helping to bring around some of these emotional wound . The non - profit system is calledWe Love Reading , and it has develop grownup volunteers to read aloud to refugee tyke . It also designs and supply thebooks , which have been write in such a direction to let in scenarios that are relevant to the tiddler ’s personal experiences .
For example , one book titledAbove the Roofexplains everyday weather events like nothingness and rainwater in an effort to relieve veneration among children who become panicky by sudden , loud noises . It seem to be working , too . Anecdotally , there have been reports of children starting to spill more freely about their fears after sit around through storytime . One child who had been wetting the bed because he was too afraid to expend the bath by himself stopped doing so after a few interpretation sessions with a volunteer .
There has also been some scientific grounds of its efficaciousness , according to neuroscientist and Brown University familiar professor Dima Amso . As part of apilot study , she travel to Jordan to assess the cognitive growing of 30 to 40 shaver who had participated in the computer program . She and other researchers pull together data before the children ’s involvement as well as three months into the political program , then compared the event in the laboratory . Their finding reveal that the curriculum come along to improve the child ’s genial wellness and cognitive development .
“ We ca n’t commute [ the small fry ’s ] political mood but what we can do is say , ‘ Here are the resilience and risk factor that are going to make them most likely to benefit , ’ ” Amso toldThe Brown Daily Heraldlast year .
The We Love Reading program was founded in 2006 by a Jordanian molecular life scientist namedRana Dajani , who also spend some time in the U.S. as a Rita E. Hauser Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University . More than 152,000reading sessionshave been held so far , and the program has since expanded to Africa , where Tennessean work with South Sudanese refugees at the Kule Refugee Camp in Gambella , Ethiopia .
[ h / tThe New York Times ]
