Wise, collaborative, diverse, compassionate, nurturing and eager. These are a few of the words that board members and staff with the Early Learning Partnership of York County brainstormed to describe the organization and its mission as they gathered for its 2021...
Dawn Mendoza began reading to her two daughters a couple of times each week when they were still in the womb. She continued to read the same books to the girls, now 16 and 19 years old, after they were born. Mendoza, a pediatric occupational therapist for more than...
NaTasha McNeil remembers her first visits to Rock Hill Pediatrics with her preschool boys after the family relocated to Rock Hill. Their pediatrician brought out a children’s book and read a few pages to her youngest son. Her son loved the book, and was eager to turn...
Retired preschool teacher Mary Watson knows how important it is for children to gain a foundation for learning before they start school. Watson, who taught kindergarten at Winthrop University’s MacFeat Early Childhood Laboratory School in Rock Hill for more than 30...
LIsa-Anne Williams sees books as an avenue for parents who read with their children to learn more about them. “For parents, that’s a chance to get to know your child, to see their strengths and learn what they are really interested in, and develop that mutual...
Pediatrician Dr. Martha Edwards says that sometimes, handing a book to a child can be “a more important tool for me than my stethoscope.” Edwards, a physician with Rock Hill Pediatrics and medical director for the South Carolina Reach Out and Read, said that...
