| Play to Talk: A Practical Guide to Help Your Late Talking Child Join the Conversation |
Based on 30 years of clinical research, award winning book Play to Talk empowers parents and professionals with proven strategies and step-by-step instructions to help children of any age learn to talk and develop essential skills for conversational relationships and social interactions. This program turns everyday play sessions and social interactions between your child and family members into opportunities to foster language development, relationship skills and positive behavior-without taking the fun out of being together.
Play to Talk will help parents whose children:
- Are "late to talk"
- Stay alone or avoid others
- Play little or in unusual ways
- Rarely communicate with sounds
- Talk more to themselves than to others
- Have language but rarely have conversations
- Dominate conversations
- Have difficulty developing friendships
- Treat others in unacceptable ways
- Seem unhappy or depressed
- Are diagnosed with developmental delays
Audience
Play to Talk is for parents, professionals, and caregivers of children who are learning language.
Play To Talk will help any child who is learning language. This approach has also been successful with hundreds of children with autism, Asperger syndrome, Down syndrome, apraxia, neurological concerns, and many other delays.
About the Authors
James MacDonald is Professor Emeritus in Speech and Language Pathology and Developmental Disabilities at Ohio State University. He currently directs the Communicating Partners Center in Columbus, OH and provides consultative services to parents and professionals all over the world. For more information, you can visit his website at www.jamesdmacdonald.org.
Pam Stoika is a developmental psychologist in Madison, WI, specializing in the areas of autism, sensory integration, and social-communicative delays. She has spent almost a decade training parents, professional, and paraprofessionals to be more developmentally effective partners with children. She is also the mother of a 15 year old son with autism. Click here to register for a free parent workshop.
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