Happy New Year to You!: A Read-Aloud Book for Memory-Challenged Adults. This item is unavailable.Happy New Year to You!: A Read-Aloud Book for Memory-Challenged Adults

Although Alzheimer’s disease and other brain disorders can interfere with communication skills, the popular Two-Lap Book® series stimulates remaining abilities and lets you connect in positive ways. Use this colorful and engaging book to start a conversation, encourage physical closeness, promote intergenerational exchanges, or provide a calming diversion. In Happy New Year to You!, celebrate each month of the year with easy-to read text and colorful illustrations that work together to describe universally appealing experiences: rain showers in April, weddings in June, school days in September. You can use this versatile book in many ways―turn to favorite pages, sing songs to match themes, or simply read every page together. Tips on how to promote engagement with the book are provided.

With a master's degree in Clinical Practices (psychology), Lydia Burdick's career has been in human resources. Since 1993, she has been a consultant at an international outplacement firm. Lydia wrote The Sunshine on My Face in the course of caring for her mother who was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. "One of my greatest pleasures," she says, "was sitting together with my mother and hearing her read the words from this book when she had otherwise stopped speaking almost entirely."