Susan B. Neuman|Donna Celano
Access to Print in Low?Income and Middle?Income Communities: An Ecological Study of Four Neighborhoods
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor|Temple University
abstracts building growing body ecological research study examines access print two lowincome two middleincome neighborhood communities large industrial city documents availability print communities focusing resources considered influential childs beginning development writer reader describes likelihood children find books resources see signs labels logos public places spaces conducive reading books local preschools school libraries public library branches results yearlong analysis indicated striking differences neighborhoods differing income access print levels analyses middleincome children large variety resources choose lowincome children rely public institutions provide unequal resources across communities differences access print resources may important implications childrens early literacy development