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Does My Child Have a Speech Problem?"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 prescribed speech program, and how to lessen the risk of speech or language difficulties." --Amazon. |
Childhood Speech, Language, and Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know"Does your child have trouble speaking or listening? This essential, up-to-date guide explains what parents can do to help. Speech-language pathologist Patricia Hamaguchi employs her 15 years of experience to show parents how to recognize the most common speech, language, and listening problems." --Amazon. |
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Late-Talking Children "The painful and baffling mystery as to why some obviously bright children do not begin talking until long after the 'normal' time is explored in this book through personal experiences and the findings of scientific research." --Amazon. Written by a father of a child who didn't talk until he was four years old. |
The New Language of Toys : Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Special Needs"The newly revised and updated edition of a guide that describes a fun, hands-on approach to teaching communication skills to children from birth to age six, using everyday toys. 'A fresh pragmatic approach to using everyday toys to facilitate language development in young children.'--Advance for Speech-Language Pathologists & Audiologists. --Amazon. |
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Baby Signs : How to Talk With Your Baby Before Your Baby Can Talk  Using simple hand, facial and body movements, babies and toddlers can learn to communicate well before they are speaking. This book is not written for speech-delayed children, but many of the same signs could be used. --listmom. |
Changed by a Child : Companion Notes for Parents of a Child with a Disability"In "Changed by a Child" Gill honestly describes the range of issues and addresses the inner needs of parents of children with disabilities. Parents are invited to find comfort and hope in these brief readings, focusing on such topics as grief, anger, fear, prejudice, and fatigue, that capture the unique challenges and joys of raising a disabled child." --Amazon. |
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The Child With Special Needs : Encouraging Intellectual and Emotional Growth "Covering all kinds of disabilities--including cerebral palsy, autism, retardation, ADD, and language problems--this comprehensive guide offers parents specific ways of helping all special needs children reach their full intellectual and emotional potential." --Amazon. |
Social Skills Activities for Special Children"Stories, lessons, and 140 hands-on activities help special needs children in grades 2-6 become aware of and develop socially acceptable behavior." --Amazon. |
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Delicate Threads : Friendships Between Children With and Without Special Needs in Inclusive Settings"An insightful guide to how children's friendships unfold when one child is developmentally disabled. Includes case studies from research conducted by the author, and help for parents hoping to understand and encourage these potentially life-enriching relationships. A 1999 Parents' Choice® Approval." --Parents' Choice® |
Views from Our Shoes : Growing Up With a Brother or Sister with Special Needs"For children ages 9-12. These unpretentious, honest snippets, contributed by 45 children ranging in age from 4 ("My Mommy and Daddy told me that Nicole was born very early and her brain got hurt") to 18, seek to fill that gap. In talking about their sibs and their feelings, the writers admit to embarrassment ("I'm sure glad he doesn't go to my school . . . if they find out that he's my brother, they'd laugh"), anger, and jealousy. But at the same time, they show how protective and loving and surprisingly wise they are when it comes to getting along in a family that is different." --Amazon. |
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