In the summer of 2016, our guest on todays show, Talia Bailes, assisted with emergent literacy research at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and was shocked to learn that if students are behind in academics by third grade, they will most likely continue to stay behind for the rest of their lives.

So when Talia learned that being exposed to reading at a young age could drastically improve children’s futures, she was spurred into action to figure out how to create a program that would help improve children’s literacy, thus creating Ballet and Books.

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