A guide to using play routines to build and accelerate a child's communication skills. Includes instructions and examples, language stimulation tips, techniques, and strategies, charts to monitor progress, ways to incorporate speech development activities into daily routines, etc.

A HANDY PARENT'S GUIDE THAT TURNS PROFESSIONAL LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT INTO CHILD'S PLAY Are you concerned that your child is not verbalizing? The solution may be as simple as a game. Talking with Your Toddler teaches you how to stimulate speech using everyday play. It makes learning to talk fun and engaging for your child. With proven therapies and easy-to-follow activities, Talking with Your Toddler makes an ideal home companion. - Tips to promote talking throughout the day - Hands-on games that teach new words - Tricks for turning drive time into talk time - Fun ways to promote further practice - Techniques for keeping kids engaged Written by experienced speech professionals, this book’s straightforward approach is equally useful for parents at home, teachers in the classroom or therapists in a clinic.

Offers advice on how parents can develop their infants' communication skills by using teaching skills such as describing, explaining, and comparing.

Is my child a late talker or should I be concerned? My child pulls me to what he wants instead of talks, should I be worried? Will sign language stop my child from talking? Do these questions sound familiar? You are not alone. Millions of parents ask the same questions about their child's speech every day! Empower yourself to help your child now with The Cow Says Moo, an early intervention guide that will teach you the best, easy-to-use, proven strategies for helping children learn to communicate!In 10 easy-to-follow tips, The Cow Says Moo provides the same proven, common sense strategies that are used by practitioners who provide direct home-based speech therapy to toddlers and their families.Tip 1: Do What Does Not Come Naturally shows you how to give your child a reason to talk.Tip 2: Juice or Milk? explains how to provide your child with more opportunities to expand his language skills. Tip 3: Simple Signs explains how you can use sign language to help your child make the connection that language has a purpose.Tip 4: Be Silly shows you how to incorporate silliness into everyday situations in order to promote listening skills.Tip 5: Talk It Out! explains how verbalizing your own actions and those of your child expose your child to different aspects of language, speech, and communication. Tip 6: Keep It Moving! explains how you can use oral motor exercises in order to help your child practice the mouth movements that are vital for speech.Tip 7: The Cow Says Moo shows you how to help your child find the right word.Tip 8: Break It Down shows you how to break words down into smaller components so that your child can communicate more effectively.Tip 9: Get Your Groove On shows you how to pair movement with sound in order to help your child learn language through a sensation other than sound. Tip 10: Books, Books, and More Books shows you how to incorporate books into your strategy for encouraging language development.The Cow Says Moo also contains songs and rhymes, a recommended book list, contact information for U.S. and Canadian early intervention programs, and simple sign language for toddlers. Look no further to get started on helping your child to talk! The Cow Says Moo delivers speech therapy at a level that the average parent can understand and implement.

You might have thought of talking as a naturally seamless occurrence before becoming a parent. But when your 14-month-old can only babble what sounds like gibberish to you, you realize that it is not so seamless anyway. And while a child without any speech impairment will talk sooner or later, there is a lot you can do as a parent or caregiver (preschool teacher, babysitter, etc.) to help your toddler learn to talk. No matter how fast or slow you may think your toddler is at talking, you will have fun in the process. Getting your toddler to talk can be a time to build the lifetime bond that makes for a great parent-child relationship, so enjoy it. In this book, you are going to learn foolproof strategies to encourage your kid to open up and speak properly. Among the things you will learn: •How to create quality time with your kid •Fun ideas to connect emotionally with your kid •Developing proper listening skills •Leveraging the power of autosuggestion in developing kid’s talking skills •Asking the right questions and answering their questions effectively •Special tools for bringing out the talker in your toddler If you want your kid to talk properly, use the BUY button to add this book to your library.

Help little ones learn to talk with fun-to-read rhymes—written by an early speech expert! Created by a speech-language pathologist, My First Learn-to-Talk Book uses a proven approach designed to help little ones master the skills they need as they learn to talk and communicate. Each page features: Simple, exciting sounds that are easy for little ones to imitate, and can be used to build bigger words Rhythm and rhyme to encourage repetition and help keep babies engaged, even before they can understand the text Real photographs that model correct mouth positions and support socio-emotional learning