John’s guest this week is Holly Lawson, leader in Art Moving Children to Reading, a not-for-profit organization headquartered in South Western Michigan which aims to bring the role of art and drawing in accelerating the ability of children to read. They talk of the scientific studies which show the integration of drawing and art for the young child speeds their brain’s development in reading and many other ways. She talks of the amazing fact that teaching a child to properly hold a pen, pencil or crayon will have benefits in development of learning and open whole worlds of imaginative thinking.
