New reading program to use children’s books to help area kids learn empathy and understanding [Video]

FINDLAY, Ohio — While learning to read, young children can also be learning other life skills as well.

This has prompted one local organization to offer a list of books for elementary students that help to develop empathy and inclusion.

DREAM stands for Disability Representation, Education and Awareness in Media.

The program will highlight 14 children’s books with the hopes of better exposing and informing elementary children about people with disabilities.

“It’s a way to show children in the early grades individuals with disabilities, and how their lives are impacted by those disabilities, and how we should understand them better through those books,” said Ben Sapp, director of the Mazza Museum.

College of Educationstudents at the University of Findlay will be working the remainder of the school year to develop …