Talking is hard for me! Encouraging communication in children with speech-language difficulties

By: Reinert, Linda M.

Contributor(s): Lynch, Emily S.

Publisher: Bethesda, MD Woodbine House 2013Description: ix, 54 p. : col. ill. ; 21 x 26 cm.ISBN: 9781606131923.Subject(s): JUVENILE LITERATURE

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Summary: [This book] features a lively, full-color illustrated children's story that follows a child and his family as they challenge, prompt and support his communication efforts. Read the story on your own or with your child to empathize with his struggles to talk while learning practical ideas that help. The accompanying informational sections are full of accessible speech-language therapy strategies and instructions to improve communication and ease frustration - sign language, sentence simplification, music & reading and creating natural need to compel children to ask for help. You'll be amazed by how easy it is to apply these practices throughout everyday life! Be sure to share this book with your child's daycare providers, teachers, family members and peers." - BOOK JACKETReview: This is a great book for kids who are struggling with speech or just making themselves understood. It acknowledges the child’s frustration and shows the child that it is good to try even if they don’t quite get it “right”. The book offers alternatives to speech such as sign language or “talking hands”, picture boards, tablets and other devices. Suitable for ages 4 and up.

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Average rating: 4.0 (1 votes)

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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[This book] features a lively, full-color illustrated children's story that follows a child and his family as they challenge, prompt and support his communication efforts. Read the story on your own or with your child to empathize with his struggles to talk while learning practical ideas that help. The accompanying informational sections are full of accessible speech-language therapy strategies and instructions to improve communication and ease frustration - sign language, sentence simplification, music & reading and creating natural need to compel children to ask for help. You'll be amazed by how easy it is to apply these practices throughout everyday life! Be sure to share this book with your child's daycare providers, teachers, family members and peers." - BOOK JACKET

This is a great book for kids who are struggling with speech or just making themselves understood. It acknowledges the child’s frustration and shows the child that it is good to try even if they don’t quite get it “right”. The book offers alternatives to speech such as sign language or “talking hands”, picture boards, tablets and other devices.

Suitable for ages 4 and up.

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What a fantastic little book - heaps of useful information and ideas that may help us with encouraging speech in our mainstreamed autistic boy. Really well set out, encouraging, readable and down to earth. (When I say 'our' I mean a collective 'our' from a teacher viewpoint - he is not my son.

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