My Toddler Talks: Strategies and Activities to Promote Your Child's Language Development

This is one of the best books around for anyone who wants to help with the development of a young child. This book is seriously AMAZZZZZING. What I especially love about this book for your toddlers is that it's more than just a speech book - it's a hands on, deep learning activity in almost all cases. IT provides suggests goals to help with actionable results - for a type A person like me - it's just the absolute best.I honestly wish that someone had used this book with me as a child, it probably would have helped with some of my speech problems. ONe thing I highly recommend is to actually read through it all and tkake the advice and tips from the author - they know what they're talking about. Don't believe me? Try it once "your" way then try reading it word by word and running with the authors suggestions, trust me, you'll do much better with the advice of Scanlon. This book is clever, educational and extremely helpful. It keeps things interesting for you too! It's not your average book and does a great job of keeping everyone busy and entertained. This book is extremely engaging and I've seen great results with my toddler. Give it a whirll. Can't sing praises enough.

My 2 year old recently started speech therapy services. I found this book during an amazon search and I'm glad I did. This book is written is a very accessible way. It explains the reasons why certain activities are conducive to early learners and enhancing confidence in their ability. While reading the book an app that can be used in conjunction with the book was mentioned, however when I tried to download it wasn't available in the app store. I went to the author Facebook page and sent a message and she promptly got back to me. The book is impressive and incredibly helpful for children in speech or special education services or parents looking to do work on their own. The author is knowelgeble and her expertise is presented in a fun way. I highly recommend this to all parents of toddlers regardless of need.

This book definitely had techniques for helping to promote speech with your toddler. If you are concerned about your toddler's speech or just want to try to prevent any delays, then this is a good resource. It explains the how and why of the techniques too, which helps you to communicate with your toddler when you don't have the book in front of you.That being said, if you actually have speech therapy already for your toddler, then this is a little redundant. You should be receiving this information from your SLP, and you can look for ideas to engage for free all over the internet. I found the instructional part helpful, but the activities seemed pretty basic and I would have had to purchase additional supplies for most of the activities in the book. After reading it, I actually gave it to our therapists for the Early Intervention program. We've been doing speech therapy for about 9 months, so maybe I was already too informed to really benefit from this book. However, if you're just starting out, this could be helpful by getting you a head start on the therapy.

Great guide for parents and toddlersLove the simple activities easy to follow and do. Great advises for parents :)

I bought this book to get ahead of speech delays in my 18 month old. I found the book really insightful when it comes to how play relates to language, which is not something I would have put together on my own. It was fascinating to discover that what toddlers do play wise translates to what they're capable of in speech due to the brain developments that allow for that play and how that affects speech ability/use. My only gripe is I think the book could be a lot more useful if the suggested activities/ play routines were organized by age appropriateness. The author talks about parent's expectations being realistic, but then the play routines don't have a suggested age or any organization by age. As a first time parent, I really don't know what play routines in the book might be too sophisticated for my child or what he could reasonably attempt at his age. Maybe the book is meant for those with older toddlers who would/should be able to complete any of the play routines, but I was hoping for more tips/ organized guidance to get out ahead of an emerging delay and use play to help your toddler talk.

I ordered this after my son scored alarmingly low in the speech/language part of his development questionnaire with the doctor. I'm so glad I did! It turns out my son didn't have a problem, I just didn't know how to talk with him to encourage him to try. I was overwhelming him before. This book is so useful for teaching parents how to talk with their toddlers to make their toddlers want to talk back. It also gave me a realistic starting point and set my expectations for what's normal at his age. He wasn't imitating, pointing to objects, handing things to me, or recognizing the names of items- and within 2 weeks he's doing all of that and acquired about 5 new words. We're making lots of progress now.

Structured well with detailed descriptions, many practical ideas. Gives a great baseline of understanding speech activities, and focused on relevant things, i.e explain why things are important but does not overwhelm with theory.Pleasantly surprised that it is not a dry book and that everything in the book is actionable and useful right away.

Excellent

Very pleased with this book. My grandson is non verbal and also doesn't play with toys in a typical way. This has given me some ideas as to how I can engage him in play. The book is easy to read and has a sensible approach.

This is very nice book .... To involve toddlers into different activities and increase their vocabulary ..... I found the ways she told are very good

Helpful and very easy to do. Ideal for parents who doesn’t know where to start.

Excellent practical strategies accessibly written for parents.