Becoming Verbal With Childhood Apraxia
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This books helps therapists and parents learn how to help children become more vocal, verbal, communicative, imitative and interactive.
book details
This resource is based on the original writings of Jean Piaget and Pam Marshalla's three decades of clinical work with children. It contains profound yet practical tools for helping children learn to talk.
Teach your child to speak up, speak out, play with sounds and words, engage in dialogue, turn take, imitate, and become much more expressive. If you are looking for a place to begin reading about how to help a young children with a severe expressive speech delay or disorder, this is it.
Appropriate for children one year of age and above.
chapters
- The Integral Relationship of Apraxia and Imitation
- The Entertaining Variety of Sound
- The Power of Crowd Noise
- Creating One Voice for Imitation Development
- Laughing Encourages Turn Taking
- Learning to Take Turns in Dialogue
- Mutual Imitation: The Most Important Stage
- Imitating the Repertoire
- New Sounds and Words in the Final Stage
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feedback
"I wish I had found your program and book a year ago. It was page after page of describing my son's struggles! Bless you! You have provided me and my family a roadmap to steer him in the right direction. You have helped so much!"
Tracy Whitt-Blyler, Mom
"This book provides a great resource and refreshing perspective regarding childhood apraxia. Instead of viewing this condition as a permanent problem, this book evaluates the differences in learning rates of apraxic children in regards to mimicking and motor planning. It gives excellent suggestions on increasing vocabulary and response in apraxic children and hope for parents who have children with this condition. Using some of these suggestions has greatly helped me and my apraxic son!"
Chrissy Allen, Mom
"I just read your book, Becoming Verbal With Childhood Apraxia, and loved all of your down-to-earth suggestions."
Leslie Lindsay, SLP
"As a parent of an apraxic child, I want to thank you for your work with children who have apraxia! It is clearly a passion and mission of yours. I read Becoming Verbal With Childhood Apraxia and I found this book most helpful when my son was initially diagnosed with apraxia, as I was trying to make sense of this disorder."
Tania Garner, Parent
common question about this material
Can you tell me how your books "Becoming Verbal With Childhood Apraxia" and "Apraxia Uncovered, The Seven Stages of Phoneme Development" are different? Which one should I read first?
ANSWER:
- Think of Becoming Verbal With Childhood Apraxia as Part 1. It is about how to get kids more vocal, verbal, communicative, imitative and interactive, and how to get them to play with the sounds they make. Read it first.
- Think of Apraxia Uncovered, The Seven Stages of Phoneme Development as Part 2. It is about how sound develops over time - from the vocalizations of the infant to the sophisticated consonant and vowel sequences of the three-year-old. Read it or listen to the recorded seminar second.
