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Little Language Songs For Little Ones
by Laura Dyer

Description from Amazon
Winner of the Education Clearinghouse 2002 Award of Excellence, this fun and fabulous album features 40 minutes of educational songs for your child ages birth to eight. Each song was written with a specific speech and language goal in mind. It has received 7 National Reviews/Endorsements and several local including the Music City's Nashville Parent Magazine. This soundtrack exposes your child to a wide variety of musical styles including jazz, folk, dance, pop, internation, and features fun sound effects and interactive songs too. The most educational songs are paced so that your child will be able to comprehend the lyrics and be able to sing along as well. Developed by a speech-language pathologist, this album reinforces all of the speech techniques taught in the Little Language for Little Ones Book.

Here's How To Do Therapy: Hands-On Core Skills in Speech Langauge Therapy
by Debra M. Dwight

Description from Amazon
The author presents an easy-to-read, easy-to-follow guide on conducting effective therapy sessions. The book includes concepts, explanations, and strategies directly keyed to the therapy session and provides checklists and therapeutic-specific workshop forms.

A 50-minute DVD accompanies the books in includes one-to-three minute vignettes highlighting concepts and two 10-minute sessions cover language-based therapy and articulation therapy.

Look Who's Talking
by Laura Dyer and Bruce Landski (editor)

Customer Review from Amazon
Look Who's Talking is an excellent book. Ms. Dyer has obviously reviewed a large volume of research (see the notes section for many helpoful resources)and has covered many topics. Yet, she has managed to write in terms that are easily understood and helpful to parents and others. She has included specific examples to illustrate important points. Her book is filled with helpful and encouraging statements like these.

- You are your child's first and most important language model.
- Language is best learned by doing.
- Talking about a child's interests helps language development.
- Active learning is better than passive learning.

The author describes scaffolding as it relates to speech and language development. She includes helpful charts which provide information about a wide variety of topics including the following.

- Sound Acquisition
- Consonant Cluster Acquisition
- Recommended Staff-Child Ratios (childcare centers)
- Signs of Hearing Impairment

I have a copy of this book myself, and I have given the book as a baby shower gift. I also have the author's Little Language Songs for Little Ones tape, which my children and I enjoy listening to in the car. You'll be glad you added this book to your personal or professional library.

The Dancing Dialogue
by Suzy Tortora

Product Description From Amazon
A one-of-a-kind resource that combines insights from diverse disciplins, this book gives readers an innovative, effective way to assess and enhance he development of young children.

About the Author
Suzi Tortora, Ed.D.,A.D.T.R., CMA, is a Dance Movement Therapist in Cold Spring, NY. She is currently creating a dance therapy program for the pediatric ward of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

My Haircut
by Lauren Child

Customer Review From Amazon
Though this really isn't a story as much as a sparsely written re-cap of the television episode my 2 year old son (who is an enormous Charlie and Lola fan) is crazy for the sticker page and really likes filling in the story where the words are not written from his own memory. The stickers (over 100) include Lotta, Sizzles, Lola, leaves, yellow rubber boots, lady bugs, glasses of pink milk, a soccer ball, etc...in other words all of Lola's important things in life. A must for the Charlie and Lola fan.

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Frog DJ Radio

Product Features

• Features lively learning songs and an LED light show
• Sing and dance to the music
• 13 songs and 3 learning stations
• Animated lights visually reinforce the learning songs
• 12 months and up

LeapFrog Quantum Learning Pad System 

Product Description
This LeapFrog Quantum Pad Learning System will keep your child on track with fundamental grade school subjects from grades 3 through 5. Using an interactive "magic pen," like those used with LeapPad, your child will explore math, reading/language arts, science, geography and history improving his or her skills in reading fluency and comprehension, spelling, computation, critical thinking, memory, classification, mapping and grammar. Includes an interactive sampler book of the Quantum Pad library, an interactive magic pen, erasable marker, interactive games, headphone jack, volume control, a parent guide and instructions.

Laugh & Learn Learning Phone

• With rich music, sing-along songs, and lots of activities, they combine early academics and everyday experiences-for the way kids really learn
• Teaches: Alphabet Numbers Colors Shapes Words Opposites Actions Textures Manners
• Music time 12 "cell phone" tunes, fun sounds and light show
• Part of Laugh & Learn Collection
• Age Range 6 to 36 Months

Learn Through Music Plus System

• Sing-along interactive learning system featuring Dora the Explorer helps teach preschoolers fundamental lessons through the magic of music
• Interactive learning activities and games teach fundamentals through rhythm, rhyme and repetition
• New record-and-play feature; three modes of play include ID, Quiz and Music
• Light-up touch-screen and volume control; includes one game cartridge
• 12Hx10.5W"; For ages 2–5 yrs.

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Max and Friends

From Amazon
Max and Friends: Volume 1 is a multimedia skill building program for children with autism and related disabilities.

The innovative package uses DVDs, story books and music to present proven therapy-based exercises in a fun, simple format for children with special learning needs.Max and Friends is organized into volumes of related skills. Volume 1 of the series focuses on Imitation, Commands, and Matching. Each skill is the focus of a DVD and an accompanying story book. Each DVD is comprised of up to 12 individual lessons, each lasting approximately 8 to 10 minutes. Each book is aligned with a DVD, with fun rhymes that reinforce the featured skill. All the music from the DVD’s – classic children’s songs and fun, skill-based original compositions – are included on a CD for parents to play anytime, anywhere. The package also includes an instructive manual designed to train parents in teaching, maintaining and generalizing the skills. Developed by a team of autism therapists and children’s media professionals, Max and Friends is designed for children with special learning needs but is fun and entertaining for children of all developmental levels. Volume 1 is recommended for children under 6, but can be used for developmentally challenged children and adults of all ages. Future volumes of Max and Friends will address more complex cognitive and linguistic skills and independent subjects such as safety and social skills.

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