Books and Theater Arts Take Center Stage for Deaf and Hearing Children in the Early Grades.

The article offers the author's insights on the Broadway Books First Class, a classroom-based reading program which is designed to promote theater arts and children's literature for deaf and children in New York City. She mentions significant of arts participation on the development of social skills and emotion regulation among children, the importance of the use of high-quality children's literature, and the incorporation of the inclusion of the program on literacy instruction.