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 Susan Straub
has worked with adolescents since her graduation from the University
of Wisconsin in 1966, beginning with Upward Bound students in Milwaukee,
and then various young people in community programs and post-secondary
education colleges in London. She added a focus on babies during her
training in child psychotherapy at the Tavistock Institute. Following
her return to the United States in 1979 with her novelist husband
Peter Straub and their first child, Ben, they had a second child,
Emma. Finally, she reoriented herself to work in America through a
Master’s Degree in Clinical Social Work at NYU in 1987.
In 1989, she put her experience, training, interests and pleasures
together to create the mother-baby-reading program called READ TO
ME. Refined and growing, the program is now available to a widening
population of mothers and babies through a variety of interested
professionals and caregivers who understand how books contribute
to both parent and child. Each can have stories and art in their
shared lives while having their needs met in a pleasurable, practical
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| Susan Straub with READ TO ME leaders Kristen Lynch (L) and Denise Lewis Patrick-also a children's author (R). |
