Registration not required, but encouraged. Please register for the event here.

Join the Enoch Pratt Free Library in welcoming the Kennedy Krieger Institute for a program around literacy and childhood development, for Back to School time of year.

Understanding the full complexity of how our brains learn to read is critically important, and understanding how factors in our children's lives, like screen time, for example, impact the development of this crucial skill.  This session will discuss children's reading, literacy and the impact of technology on both.

Families and all ages welcome for this program! There will be an interest based, sensory activity for children during this presentation for parents.

Featured Speaker: Tzipi Horowitz- Kraus, PhD
Dr. Horowitz-Kraus is an associate professor at the Department of Neuropsychology at Kennedy Krieger Institute and at the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She is also an associate professor and the head of the Educational Neuroimaging Group at the Faculty of Education in Science and Technology and Faculty of Biomedical Engineering at the Technion, Israel.

Dr. Horowitz-Kraus works with children with, or at risk, for reading difficulties such as dyslexia, attention deficit, psychiatric and neurological conditions, or children exposed to high levels of screens or neglect. She is currently leading a study from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R01 HD086011), focusing on the role of Executive functions in reading and reading remediation.