Literacy kits help parents read to babies in neonatal intensive care

When little Julianna was born weeks too early, her mother Deanna Ganske was overwhelmed and puzzled by her role in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU).
“You kind of get shaken up. A lot of your instincts go on the back burner,” said Deanna Ganske, who sits on an NICU parent advisory group. Her daughter is now five and just started kindergarten.
If someone had handed her a book while she sat by her daughter’s side, she would have read it to Julianna, who was born by emergenc