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By Maria Sophocles, MD 
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(NewsUSA) -- A year after the coronavirus pandemic turned education upside down, educators and parents are assessing learning loss and the need to help young children get on track and meet milestones they may have missed because of closed or limited daycare centers and preschools.

Many preschoolers missed out on not only academic development, but also social/emotional education with opportunities for engagement and support.

The Animal Island Learning Adventure (AILA) Sit & Play interactive device offers a unique and effective solution to the challenges of promoting early childhood development at home and in the daycare or preschool setting.

AILA is a hands-free device designed as an early education tool for children ages 12 months and older to build the skills they need to proceed to school. The content is attentive, supportive, and responsive; it meets children where they are, and gets them where they need to be. The curriculum includes literacy, numeracy, problem solving, story time, collaboration, communication, creativity, and music, and addresses social as well as academic development. Children are engaged in active, not passive, screen time.

"What is really rewarding is to impact people's lives in education early on," says Helen Fu Thomas, CEO of DMAI, Inc.

"Especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, AILA helped tens of thousands of American households and many daycare centers educate the toddlers and preschoolers effectively," she adds. AILA is the no. 1 New Release on Amazon in the Toddler Electronic Learning System category.

Daycare providers can use AILA as a simple solution to help combat pandemic learning loss.

"I work with inner-city kids from middle- and low-income families," says Maria Benjamin, director of the Next Generation Learning Center in Richmond, VA. "These families deserve the best. I believe they can have a promising beginning and a good foundation of learning, and I'm very thankful they can get a head start with AILA."

AILA has no advertising or inappropriate content, and requires no subscription fees. An accompanying app lets parents set content and check in on their child's progress and activities remotely.

Visit animalisland.us for more information and for a special offer on AILA Sit and Play.

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The storyline artfully weaves between the present and the past, and as the proceedings unfold, it is interspersed with the thought processes our founding fathers used in framing the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, that continue to steer the course of our democracy."Justice" conveys a palpable sense of hope that one strong and righteous mind can make the difference in changing our course of events. Book Excellence Award Finalist March 2021 -- Performing Arts category. Purchase at https://amzn.to/39OD01I.

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From childhood, Adri and Simon have always been there for each other, through every loss, triumph, joy and heartbreak. But there's one catch: they've only ever met in their dreams. Each of them thinks the other one is just a figment of their imagination. But what if they weren't?

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 It's 1977 and Cassie Lyman, a graduate student in women's history, is struggling to find a topic for her doctoral dissertation. When she discovers a trove of drawings, suffrage cartoons, letters, and diaries at Smith College belonging to Kate Easton, founder of the Birth Control League of Massachusetts in 1916, she believes she has located her subject.

 Digging deeper into Kate's life, Cassie learns that she and Kate are related -- closely. Driven to understand why her family has never spoken of Kate, Cassie travels to Cape Ann to attend her sister's shotgun wedding, where she questions her female relatives about Kate -- only to find herself soon afterward in the same challenging situation Kate faced. Purchase at https://bit.ly/3ryt02z.

"Digital Greed"
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 A $200 investment into Bitcoin in 2012 drags JT into the wild west of cryptocurrency trading. A sophomore in college, he must learn to navigate perhaps the world's most dangerous market: unprecedented price volatility, the uncertain future of cryptocurrencies, and a labyrinth of fraudsters at every turn.

 JT uses everything he knows to develop a unique trading strategy to accommodate periods of rapid growth and decline at a time when cryptocurrency was largely dismissed and ridiculed by the mainstream investor community. "Digital Greed" is an inspirational autobiography written to motivate traders - new to trading or not - to find their niche, develop unique trading strategies, and to never stop learning. Purchase at https://bit.ly/3twG7TZ.

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