CAN YOU IMAGINE NOT BEING ABLE TO READ?

You’d be unable to navigate the web to even find this page. You couldn’t read a menu, the directions on a medicine bottle, or street signs. You couldn’t read a bedtime story to your child. Seem unbelievable? Not to the thousands of adults in Suffolk who lack basic functional reading skills. 

The inability to read affects our entire community in many ways. Research shows a direct link between illiteracy and poverty, joblessness, and crime. Children who have not been read to and do not have books in their homes do not do as well in school as their peers. 

The Suffolk Literacy Council has a clear mandate to improve lives through literacy. We provide the following services: 

• One-on-one tutoring for adults needing help with basic, reading, writing, and math.

• Individual and small group instruction in English as a second language.

• Children’s reading programs and book distributions.

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