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What to Do When Your Child Isn't Talking

Expert Strategies to Help Your Baby or Toddler Talk, Overcome Speech Delay, and Build Language Skills for Life

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Help your little one overcome childhood speech delay—with expert guidance and simple strategies you can use at home!

For parents of young children, speech milestones are monumental—from baby babble to first words to full sentences. It's natural to worry when they don't arrive "on schedule" or when your little one seems to lag behind their peers.

In What to Do When Your Child Isn't Talking, speech and language therapist Nicola Lathey and journalist Tracey Blake offer parents much-needed reassurance and solutions—at a moment when speech delay and regression is more common than ever. Organized by major milestones from birth to age four, this don't-panic guide will empower you to:
  • Identify early signs of speech delay and possible causes— "glue ear," tongue tie, suspected autism, or simply your child's individual pace of learning.
  • Help your child practice specific speech sounds and words that they find tricky with fun activities, from classic clapping games to filling a "story sack."
  • Get to the root of toddler tantrums, chronic shyness, unclear speech, stuttering, social anxiety, and other issues stunting your child's self-expression.
  • Communicate better with your child, and watch them thrive!
  • Publisher's note: What to Do When Your Child Isn't Talking is an updated and revised edition of Small Talk.
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      • Library Journal

        May 1, 2023

        Addressing one of the most common worries for parents, speech/language therapist Lathey and journalist/ed-tech entrepreneur Blake provide support and resources for parents who have a child with delayed speech development. This book demonstrates how to first identify whether there actually is a deficit in speech, language, or communication. Subsequent chapters discuss what to do to help children during the stages between infancy and early childhood if the baby isn't babbling or joining two words together. One chapter addresses shyness vs. when the child is reticent to talk to others. Specific challenges such as tongue tie, pacifier usage, and stuttering are also covered, along with questions and answers specific to English-as-a-second-language (ESL) households. Practical solutions include games to build vowel development, learning words through singing, books to facilitate progress, and ideas that incorporate play. The book also contains a glossary, a helpful list of relevant support groups and organizations, and reading recommendations for additional learning. This book is structured to allow parents to flip to the specific situations they face to find advice and inspiration. VERDICT Full of resources and suggestions, this book is an easy-to-use reference.

        Copyright 2023 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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