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.

Is your toddler struggling with his or her first words? Discover evidence-based techniques to model, elicit, track, and expand your toddler's language. Speech language pathologist and bestselling author Kimberly Scanlon specializes in helping toddlers find their voice. And now she's here to help you build a strong foundation for your toddler's early communication skills. My Toddler's First Words: A Step-by-Step Guide to Jump-start, Track, and Expand Your Toddler's Language contains step-by-step instructions to stimulate your child's verbal skills. With expert guidance, you'll discover what to expect from your child's first words and learn to recognize each milestone along their language development journey. Through Scanlon's interactive book, you'll learn simple speech therapy techniques to catapult your toddler's communication skills to the next level. In My Toddler's First Words, you'll discover: - Proven speech therapy techniques and real-world examples to encourage language growth - Lists of words that tend to develop early on that may be missing from your child's vocabulary - A systematic approach for tracking progress to pinpoint which activities work best for your toddler - How to coordinate your developmental efforts with speech language professionals to compound the benefits - Straight answers to your most pressing questions and concerns, and much, much more! My Toddler's First Words is the must-have interactive workbook for parents and speech professionals alike. If you like encouragement from experts, structured guides, and actionable steps you can start today, then you'll love Kimberly Scanlon's approachable how-to companion book. Buy My Toddler's First Words to jumpstart your child's language development today!

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.

"New stories & strategies based on ... 'How to talk so kids will listen & listen so kids will talk'"--Cover.

Help your child learn and practice talking with this fun activity book packed with family-friendly exercises, conversation topics, and vocabulary recommendations—perfect for parents who want to make sure their child develops a firm grasp of language and speech. Teaching your child to talk doesn’t have to be all work and no play! This ready-to-use activity book is perfect for practicing talking and encouraging verbalizing, whether you’re at home or on the go. Packed with interactive exercises that promote verbalization and vocabulary-building in young children, this book includes: Coloring pages Cut-and-paste activities Seasonal and holiday-themed projects And much more! Written by experienced speech professionals, the activities in this book make for a wonderful bonding experience between parents and children, and can also be used by speech language teachers as a supplement to their lessons. The end of each activity, you’ll find conversation topics, book suggestions, and relevant songs to sing to get you and your child talking and communicating effectively!

An all-new guide from the mega-bestselling How To Talk series applies trusted and effective communication strategies to the toughest challenges of raising children. For forty years, readers have turned to Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish’s How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the book The Boston Globe called, “the parenting Bible,” for a respectful and practical approach to communication with children. Expanding upon this work, Adele’s daughter, Joanna Faber, along with Julie King, coauthored the bestselling book, How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen. Now, Faber and King have tailored How To Talk’s tried and trusted communication strategies to some of the most challenging childhood moments. From tantrums to technology to talking to kids about tough topics, How To Talk When Kids Won’t Listen offers concrete strategies for these and many more difficult situations. Part One introduces readers to the How To Talk “toolbox,” with whimsical cartoons demonstrating the basic communication skills that will transform readers’ relationships with children in their lives. In Part Two, Joanna and Julie answer specific questions and share relatable stories, offering practical tools for addressing issues such as homework hassles, sibling battles, digital dilemmas, problems with punishment, and more. Readers can turn directly to any topic of interest and find the help they need, with handy “reminder pages.” Through the combination of lively stories from real parents and teachers, humorous illustrations, and entertaining exercises, How To Talk When Kids Won’t Listen offers real solutions to struggles familiar to every parent, grandparent, teacher, and anyone else who lives or works with children.