By Beatrix S
There is little worse for a parent who has a child with communication problems. It doesn’t matter if the problems are emotional or physical, the parents can get help and in most cases the problem is solved with little intervention. If your child experiences communication problems or you simply want to sharp their language skills, here are my top 5 language books for children.
Look Who's Talking: How to Enhance Your Child's Language Development, Starting at Birth
by Laura Dyer is a great help for children in expressing themselves. The book was published in 2003 and it focuses on how children can improve their language, even from birth. A great tool for parents, future parents, and teachers.
The New Language of Toys: Teaching Communication Skills to Children With Special Needs, a Guide for Parents and Teachers
by Joan E Heller Miller and Sue Schwarts offers a great opportunity to parents of children who have difficulties communicating. The book teaches parents, teachers, and everybody else, how to make things better when it comes to communicating with a child and it does that with the help of toys. It was published in 2002 and it certainly offers great ideas for parents to use when they are playing with their children; this way, you can bond with your child and help him or her to express themselves and communicate.
Childhood Speech, Language and Listening Problems: What Every Parent Should Know
by Patricia McAleer Hamaguchi is a book that provides help for parents who have children with language delay or different communication problems. The book is a great tool for those who really need support with a child that doesn't respond well to traditional approaches. The best part about this book is its structure; it is very well-structured in chapters that come with a different problem and a solution to that problem. Published in 1995, the book will also give parents the opportunity to know more about language problems and to realize if their child has a language problem or not.
Teach Me How to Say It Right: Helping Your Child With Articulation Problems
by Dorothy P Dougherty is a book, as you have probably surmised from the title, for children who have articulation problems. Parents can get a lot of information and a lot of solutions and strategies to help their children overcome the problems they might have with articulation. The book was published in 2005 and offers advice about the most common language problems children have; parents will definitely find this book a real help that will improve their child’s language.
Language Processing Problems: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
by Cindy Gaulin was published in 2001 and focuses on language processing. There seems to be an important connection between language processing and language difficulties in children. The book gives creative solutions to parents who experience this problem with their children; it also gives a lot of medical information and it can be used as a manual to help children with such problems.