Product Description: Developing Children’s Communication from Birth to Four Years is an encouraging guide for practitioners and students working with young children in the Early Years Foundation Stage, which will also appeal to parents and family carers...read more

Product Description: Atrue testimony of a non-believer went for a Beauty Pageant Contest with the theme “From a Caterpillar to a Butterfly” and underwent an amazing metamorphosis, being transformed into a child of God. Out of curiosity, Winnie Toh participated in a nationwide beauty pageant contest...read more

Product Description: Inside and outside the classroom, children of all ages spend time interacting with their peers. Through these early interactions, children make sense of the world and co-construct their childhood culture, while simultaneously engaging in interactional activities which provide the stepping stones for discursive, social and cognitive development...read more

Product Description: How Many More Questions?: Techniques for Clinical Interviews of Young Medically Ill Children provides readers with a comprehensive framework to understand how 5-10 year old children use language to formulate and communicate their thoughts...read more

Product Description: Communication Across the Lifespan combines communication and lifespan development, in order to equip students entering health, disability and related fields with the skills they need to engage effectively with people of all ages and life experiences...read more

Product Description: Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of parents and caregivers around the globe to the miracle of signing with their babies – and left them wanting more! Now, in this new bigger edition, Monta Briant provides more than 300 American Sign Language (ASL) signs, illustrated with the same clear, easy-to-understand photos and descriptions...read more

Product Description: Speech, verbally mediated consciousness, and culture most evidently differentiate people from animals. Moreover, verbal communication has historically been viewed as a human attribute. Yet, the biological precursors to verbal communication exist in animal communication: obvious links have been found between human and animal nonverbal vocal communication...read more

Product Description: Two Christian parenting educators describe five ways we can connect with our children: physical touch, quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, and acts of service. These initiatives, when geared to the preferences of each child, make them feel loved and, thus, more receptive to guidance and redirection when needed...read more

Product Description: Why are thousands of hearing parents signing with their hearing babies? According to a long-term study at UC Davis, funded by the National Institutes of Health, signing babies:   •            talk sooner and have larger vocabularies •            have stronger parent/child bonds •            have less frustration, crying and tantrums •            show more interest in books •            engage in more sophisticated play •            have increased IQ scores   Signing also increases baby’s self-esteem and gives parents a window into their child’s mind and personality...read more

Product Description: The Secret Language of Children is:--An unspoken language that all children use--An amazing door into your child's inner world--Your greatest tool for raising emotionally healthy kidsWith this groundbreaking book, Dr. Lawrence Shapiro, a leading child psychologist, shows you how to understand this amazing world of communication, and the joys and rewards it can bring...read more

Carl and David were talking about older brothers. 'My big brother is eight,' said Carl. Not to be outdone, David said, 'When I'm ten I'll beat your big brother.' 'No, you won't; he'll be eleven,' said Carl. David kept claiming he would be older than Carl's brother. 'When were you born?' asked Carl. 'When I was younger.' Kids Talking explores communication among young children in a child care setting, showing how games and even tentative interactions can turn into rich relationships―and a vibrant learning culture where friendships, power, and control are managed in creative ways. Filled with lively anecdotes and examples, this engaging book looks at ways children's passionate and mixed signals, communication uncertainty, conflict, and games can be transformed into effective messages. Readers who work with young/preschool children, including parents, child care workers, and teachers, will find useful insights and suggestions for how to enhance young children's communication skills. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Since the dawn of time, the peanut gallery has been driving their parents crazy"occasionally entertaining them"with the same phrases uttered over and over and over again. Kids are never neutral on any subject. Nor are they always understood...read more

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Product Description: Based on a huge body of research in child language and communication development, Children's Communication Skills uses a clear format to set out the key stages of communication development in babies and young children. Its aim is to increase awareness in professionals working with children of what constitutes human communication and what communication skills to expect at any given stage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A noted psychotherapist offers a perceptive guide to what children say, what they really mean, and how to cope with it, providing parents with a series of effective strategies for responding to provocative statements, decoding the emotional message behind a child's words, and establishing meaningful parent-child communications. Original. 15,000 first printing.

A psychologist and author walks readers through the often difficult process of talking to children about difficult topics, offering practical advice on how to discuss war, school shootings, terrorism, and other traumatic events. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: At a time when expectations and assumptions about the delivery of services to children and adolescents are being reconfigured - for example, around the rights of children and adolescents as young citizens - adults are seeking to ensure that they deliver services in creative and empowering ways, ensuring that the opinions of young people are actively solicited and encouraged...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Through baby signing that parents can teach to their children, youngsters can communicate when they want more, when something is too hot, or even to let everyone know the food is 'all gone!'