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Speaker 1: It's the celebration of reading at the Greater Boston YMCA,

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to encourage children to pick up a book.

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Speaker 2: We have guests, speakers coming from different places that are

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Speaker 2: coming in and reading to our children all the way

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Speaker 2: from zero all the way to thirteen years old.

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Speaker 1: Bexy Perez, a Senior Association Director for Youth Development for

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Speaker 1: the YMCA of Greater Boston. I talked to her at

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Speaker 1: the East Boston Y, one of many y locations where

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Speaker 1: all this reading is going on. She says it's important

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Speaker 1: in terms of brain development.

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Speaker 2: This is a time where they're learning about new words,

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Speaker 2: new vocabulary, and research has it that if we read

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Speaker 2: with kids for fifteen to twenty at least fifteen to

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Speaker 2: twenty minutes a day, it's already making a big difference

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Speaker 2: in their brain development.

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Speaker 1: Carl Stevens, WBC Boston's News Radio