Keeping Families at the Center of Health Care
Anna is afraid to speak when she enters kindergarten. She begins seeing a therapist, and eventually puts on a puppet show for her parents and teacher with him that is shared with her class. Ages 4 and up.
Have you noticed that your child has difficulty getting the right words out, following directions, or being understood? If so, this highly effective guide will help you determine what’s best for your child. Find out all you need to know about: Autism/PDD, central auditory processing disorders, dyspraxia, bilingual language development, adoption issues, thumb-sucking, and more; how… More Childhood Speech, Language and Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know
A real help for teens experiencing tough times! Because you are a teen and because you sometimes stutter, some problems are uniquely yours. This book is written to and for you in the hope of helping you solve some of these problems. Also included is a list of myths about stuttering. Each chapter is written… More Do You Stutter: A Guide For Teens
All children go through periods of saying “ting” for “thing” or “feets” for “feet,” and no two children learn to speak on exactly the same schedule. This informative, reassuring guide helps parents and teachers identify normal speech development and potential problems, with advice on when and where to seek help, how to support your child’s… More Does My Child Have A Speech Problem?
This book show parents how they can support and encourage their child’s speech and language development from birth to age 6 (or when a child can form 2- to 3-word sentences). Parents and teachers learn how to work through characteristic challenges, including hearing loss, intelligibility issues, apraxia (difficulty planning oral-motor movements), or a slower pace… More Early Communication Skills For Children With Down Syndrome
Learn step by step practical and interactive strategies for promoting children’s language development in child care, pre-school and other early childhood settings to help children interact and communicate during everyday interactions. This book is also available in Spanish.
The Signing Time board book series is specifically designed to be read in any order and does not require you to have read previous versions to be able to begin learning new signs. Sign language opens up a world of communication for pre-verbal infants, toddlers, and children with special needs – all of whom may… More Every Day Signs Book 3 Board Book
This book provides you with signs to use at home, school, with the family and much more! Learn Sign Language as a tool to enhance communication with your children. Helps children with autism build communication skills, eye contact, and express themselves without using spoken language. Includes a DVD.
The use of American Sign Language (ASL) can open up the world of communication for children who have Down syndrome because it supports the development of expressive language, functional communication, and social skills. In this guide, you will learn how signing supports language development, easy tips for signing at home, strategies for signing in the… More Everyone Can Sign: Special Needs Series Quick Guide: Down Syndrome
This book has been designed to help children to understand and accept the effects of cleft palate, cleft lip or any speech impediment in their lives and most importantly, how best to overcome them. Children with cleft palate or any child with speech or language difficulties can feel very isolated and confused as to why… More First Place
“First Words,” gives parents the information they need to allow them to stimulate their child’s speech and language. Parents are given actual samples of how children with autism and other language delays respond differently to questions and how their responses can be redirected in order to start building connections. Offenbacher explains terms such as speech… More First Words – A Parent’s Step-By-Step Guide to Helping a Child with Speech and Language Delays
Learn how to create an early childhood environment that encourages children to interact with one another. Strategies identify children over the age of three, but can be used with younger children who are having difficulties getting involved with their peers. This book is also available in Spanish.
Many children age seven and under struggle with social skills and find themselves perpetually on the sidelines, in time-out, or ignored by their peers in school and on the playground. It’s incredibly painful and worrisome for their parents to witness, but fortunately, they are not powerless to help their kids improve their social IQ.
Joey has a neurological speech disorder, apraxia, and is hard to understand when he speaks. In this story, Joey goes to camp. How his mother helps educate his camp counselor and camp mates about her son’s disability is the essence of the boy’s acceptance into camp. The story teaches the reader about this condition which… More He Talks Funny: A Heartwarming Story Of Everyday Life
As children with Down syndrome reach age 6 they encounter more complex speech and language demands in their learning and relationships with others. This is when gaps in communication abilities between children with Down syndrome and their typically developing peers begin to widen. Helping Children with Down Syndrome Communicate Better provides parents and professionals with… More Helping Children with Down Syndrome Communicate Better: Speech and Language Skills for Ages 6-14
This book offers a broad overview of the condition and reviews the diagnostic criteria for the disorder. The book details a plan you can use to coordinate professional treatment of your child’s disorder. It also explains the steps you can take on your own to encourage your child to speak comfortably in school and in… More Helping Your Child With Selective Mutism: Practical Steps To Overcome a Fear of Speaking
Poor Rodney Rat can’t pronounce his R’s and the other rodents tease him mercilessly. But when Camilla Capybara joins Rodney’s class and announces that she is bigger, meaner, and smarter than any of the other rodents, everyone is afraid. It seems she really is bigger, meaner, and smarter than all of the rest of them.… More Hooway For Wodney Wat
This lighthearted board book features wonderful photographs of young children with Down syndrome enjoying a wide selection of healthful foods, from fruits and veggies to meats and snacks. Simple, singsong questions–I like broccoli, do you?–invite participation by little ones (ages birth-4) as they anticipate and say the word for the food in each photograph. And… More I Like Berries, Do You?
Written for parents who are concerned about the speech of their young child. The goals of this book are to help you distinguish between normal disfluencies and stuttering and to enable you to begin working with your child with a better understanding of the problem. A new Risk Factors Chart helps the reader determine whether… More If Your Child Stutters: A Guide For Parents
This DVD is designed to help parents whose child may be starting to stutter by giving them better ways to interact with their child. In this film, parents of children who stutter join a group of international speech-language experts to talk compassionately and directly about what has worked for them as they interact with their… More Kids Who Stutter Parents Speak – DVD