Recommended Reading

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Books

These books parallel the philosophy SpeechCare uses in its therapy.  They will help you understand what your child is experiencing and how you can help most effectively.

 

Auditory Processing Disorders: Assessment, Management and Treatment

By: Donna Geffner and Deborah Ross-Swain

 

Technology for Communication and Cognitive Treatment: The Clinician's Guide

By: Joan L. Green

 

The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science

By: Norman Doidge

 

The New Language of Toys: Teaching Communication Skills to Children With Special Needs

By: Joan E. Heller Miller

 

The Out-Of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping With Sensory Integration Dysfunction

By: Carol Stock Kranowitz

 

The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children

By: Ross W. Greene

 

Communication Skills in Children With Down Syndrome: A Guide for Parents 

By: Kumin Libby

 

More Than Words: A Guide to Helping Parents Promote Communication and Social Skills

By: Fern Sussman

 

It Takes 2 to Talk: Hanen Parent Guide Book

By: Ayala Manolson 

 

A Normal Baby Cheryl Colangelo, OTR
Adrienne Falk Bergen, PT
Linda Gottlieb, CCC-SP

 

Helping Your Child Sleep Through the Night

By: Joanne Cuthbertson, Susie Schevill

 

Baby Signs

By: Linda Acredolo, Susan Goodwyn 

 

Autism-An Inside-Out Approach: An Innovative Look at the Mechanics of 'Autism' and Its Developmental 'Cousins'

By: Donna Williams

 

A Mind at a Time

By: Mel Levine

 

The Mind and the Brain: Neuroplasticity and the Power of Mental Force

By: Jeffrey M. Schwartz, Sharon Begley

 


Websites

American Speech and Hearing Association

Hanen

StutteringHelp.org

AfcCafet.com

Earobics

Sensory Integration International

Sensory Integration Resource Center

All Kinds Of Minds - a non profit institute which provides programs and tools to help students who learn differently achieve success in the classroom and life.

Scientific Learning - The makers of Fast ForWord

The National Institute for Literacy is a great resource.  They can send you free parent guides titled: Put Reading First: Helping Your Child Learn to Read (in English & Spanish), Big Dreams: A Family Book About Reading as well as others.  Their website is www.nifl.gov (they can be downloaded from there) and the phone number is 1-800-228-8813. 

There are also several brochures that are free to parents on several topics like reading aloud to your child, discipline, test-taking, ...available from PSEA (Pa State Education Association)

The Florida Center for Reading Research (www.fcrr.org) has numerous free literacy documents that can be downloaded as well.

DIBELS - Dynamic Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills (an assessment given to most students in grades K - 3rd) has some good resources too.  Their website is www.dibels.uoregon.edu

Literacy and Math games for kids:  www.pbs.org, www.starfall.com, www.funbrain.com, www.kizclub.com, www.lancaster.lib.pa.us (Lancaster County Library)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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