Look Who's Talking: How to Enhance Your Child's Language Development, Starting at Birth

Using the latest academic research, Laura Dyer has written the most comprehensive book available that shows parents how to enhance their children's language development, starting at birth. She addresses topics such as development in every stage broken down into every two months the first year to age seven. Mrs. Dyer specifically suggests lots of practical ideas to enhance language in each stage of development. She targets literacy and the best way to read to your child. Also when it comes time, how to help your child get ready to read and nurture their literacy development throughout the school years. Mrs. Dyer also provides steps for using sign language successfully and addresses bilingual and trilingual language development issues. She also targets language challenges with international adoptions and how to use music to enhance language development. In this book there are helpful charts that help parents know the window that certain sounds develop so that they do not become overly concerned when unneccessary. This author has addressed multiple questions about common issues from parents such as pacifiers, ear infections, tv, computers and many other issues that affect speech and language. This book is helpful for any parent of typical or special needs children ages birth to seven.

Laura Dyer has been a certified speech-language pathologist for seventeen years. She works in early intervention and with school-aged children. Mrs. Dyer wrote this book for parents of typically developing children as well as parents of special needs children. She is passionate about getting the information in this book out to parents of all children ages birth to seven. She has served on literacy committees and has spoken at conferences and workshops for parents and teachers. Each chapter of this book has been peer-reviewed by professors with specialties in each area. In addition, she has also written and produced a nationally recognized award-winning children's CD called Little Language Songs for Little Ones. She has included the lyrics in the appendix of this book. For more information about this author, visit her webpage at littlelanguage.com.