Education Station Speech Therapy Books to Encourage Speech and Language


Becoming Partners With Children: From Play to Conversation
by James D. MacDonald Ph.D., CCC, Director Communicating Partners Center, Columbus, OH

Eliciting Sounds: Strategies and Techniques for Clinician
by Wayne Secord

Exploring the Speech Language Connection
by Rhea Paul, Ph.D.

From Book News, Inc.
Investigates the various connections between the earliest human sounds and subsequent language development. With special attention to tracheostomies, Down syndrome, deafness, and speech-motor impairments, the authors examine the interaction between speech and language in typical development and the effect that that interaction has on language disorders. The 11 chapters provide linguists, psychologists, and speech-language pathologists with theoretical and clinical applications for connecting speech and language in their work.

Quick and Easy: Ideas and Materials to Help the Nonverbal Child "Talk" at Home
by Carolyn Rouse and Katera Murphy

Visual Strategies for Improving Communication
by Linda A. Hodgdon

From ASHA Leader 1997
The specific examples assisted us to develop some very creative systems that have been highly effective for many of our students. The information and specifics can be used by a beginner or a more experienced service provider. ...This is a resource that should be on every speech-language pathologist's shelf.

The Social World of Children Learning to Talk
by Betty Hart, Todd R. Risley

From Amazon
Based on unparalled data from 2-1/2 years of observing the everyday interactions of 1- and 2-year-old children learning to talk in their own homes, Hart and Risley have charted the month-by-month growth of the children's vocabulary, utterances, and use of grammatical structures. The compelling narrative highlights reliability-tested research findings and is supplemented with numerous transcripts from observations and a list of 2,000 words of children's expressive vocabulary from 19-36 months of age.

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