Visit reachoutandread.org to include reading in their medical care of young children. Reading aloud with children and talking with them increases vocabulary and promotes brain development. Reach Out and Read provides books and helps parents value reading and talking with their children. In their book A Path Appears (2014), Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn report studies that show a 30-million-word gap at age 4 between a child whose parents who have to work long hours at low-wage jobs.