Talking with Your Toddler: 75 Fun Activities and Interactive Games that Teach Your Child to Talk

Ignite speech development with your toddler using this handy parenting book that transforms professional language skills into interactive learning.

Are you concerned that your child is not talking? The solution may be as simple as a speech activity. Talking with Your Toddler teaches you how to encourage communication using everyday play-based learning. It makes learning to talk fun and engaging for your child.

With evidence-based strategies and easy-to-follow language-building activities and games, Talking with Your Toddler makes an ideal at-home resource.

• Tips to promote speech throughout the day
• Hands-on games for toddlers that teach new vocabulary
• Tricks for turning car rides into language-rich moments
• Fun ways to promote continued speech practice
• Techniques for keeping young children engaged

Written by experienced speech-language pathologists, this educational book takes a straightforward approach that's equally useful for parents, early childhood educators, and speech therapists.

Teresa Laikko, MS, CCC-SLP, is a certified speech-language pathologist with over 30 years of experience. She has provided services in schools, private practice, and home health and has owned her own successful private speech pathology practice. Teresa has worked with clients with autism, apraxia, fluency, intellectual impairments, and articulation and language delays and disorders. She is a member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association. Teresa lives in Phoenix, AZ, with her husband and her crazy dog.

Laura Laikko, MS, CCC-SLP, is a certified speech-language pathologist. She has provided services for populations such as toddlers, school-age children, and adults. Laura has worked with clients with autism, apraxia, fluency, intellectual impairments, and articulation and language delays and disorders. She is a member of the American Speech Language Hearing Association. Laura lives in Phoenix, AZ, and spends her free time with her family and friends.