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    Talk, Play, and Read with Me Mommy: Interactive Activities to Enhance Your Child's Language Development from Birth to Age Five
    Talk, Play, and Read with Me Mommy: Interactive Activities to Enhance Your Child's Language Development from Birth to Age Five
    Talk, Play, and Read with Me Mommy: Interactive Activities to Enhance Your Child's Language Development from Birth to Age Five
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    Talk, Play, and Read with Me Mommy: Interactive Activities to Enhance Your Child's Language Development from Birth to Age Five

    By Jo Ann Gramlich M.S.

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    Did you know that you can begin to talk and interact with your child as early as birth? If you did, then youre on the right track to getting your child ready for the infant, toddler, and preschool years. If you didnt, Talk, Play, and Read with Me Mommy will provide you and your child with many stimulating activities and games that are developmentally appropriate and designed to help enhance your childs speech and language skills. There are interactive activities for infants (e.g., Rattle Time, Lots of Sounds, Peek-a-Boo), toddlers (e.g., Surprise Bag, Flashlight Fun, Bear Talk), and preschoolers (e.g., Listen Up, Hunting for Colors, Silly Stories). These games can be played when you and your child have a few extra minutes during daily routines, playtime, or story time. You can also use this book when you are on the move, so make sure you carry it wherever you go.
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    PublisherAuthorHouse
    Release dateMay 23, 2014
    ISBN9781449065133
    Talk, Play, and Read with Me Mommy: Interactive Activities to Enhance Your Child's Language Development from Birth to Age Five
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    Jo Ann Gramlich M.S.

    JO ANN GRAMLICH is an award-winning author and speech-language pathologist who provides evaluation and remediation services for children with communication disorders in early intervention and preschool programs at Pediatric Educational and Diagnostic Services-ECMC, Buffalo, New York. She has worked for the Buffalo Public School District of Western New York where she provided speech-language therapy for elementary and middle school-aged children. She holds a Master of Science degree in Speech-Language Pathology from the State University of New York College at Buffalo. Jo Ann Gramlich’s other books include Talk, Play, And Read With Me Mommy and Talk, Play, And Read With Me Mommy Interactive eBook .

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      Talk, Play, and Read with Me Mommy - Jo Ann Gramlich M.S.

      © 2014 Jo Ann Gramlich, M.S. All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted by any means without the written permission of the author.

      Published by AuthorHouse 05/27/2014

      ISBN: 978-1-4490-6512-6 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4490-6513-3 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014900907

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models,

      and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Developmental Language Milestones

      Games for Infants

      Birth to 6 Months

      Making Sounds

      Rattle Time

      Gentle Voices

      Musical Sing-a-Long

      Lots of Sounds

      Pat-a-Cake

      Tender Tickles

      Playful Reading

      Merry Melodies

      Peek-a-Boo

      Just Talk

      Tubby Time

      7 to 12 Months

      So Big

      What is It?

      Music Time

      Pretend Phone Talk

      Sit ’n Splash

      Pop the Bubble

      Five Little Monkeys

      Looking at Pictures

      Finding Body Parts

      Talking Time

      Where Did It Go?

      It Goes Up and Down

      Games for Toddlers

      1 to 1 ½ Years

      Can You Name It?

      Imitate Me and See

      Take a Walk with Me

      Mirror Games

      Animal Sounds

      Do You Hear That?

      Pretend Play

      Photo Pictures

      In and Out

      Teapot Time

      Catch the Ball

      Mommy Says

      1 ½ to 2 Years

      Smile and Say Cheese

      Surprise Bag

      Flashlight Fun

      Time for Breakfast

      Something’s Missing

      Bear Talk

      Look and Tell

      Puzzles and Puzzles

      Sorting Fun

      Count with Me

      Jump in the Puddle

      Blow and Pop

      2 to 2 ½ Years

      Let’s Talk

      Picnic Time

      What Did You Take?

      Ask, Ask, Ask

      Walk and Talk

      Photo Fun

      Talk and Play

      Shopping for Food

      Match It

      Washing Up

      Take a Ride

      Go Fish

      2 ½ to 3 Years

      Moving Like an Animal

      Mealtime Fun

      Is It Big or Little?

      Memory Game

      Counting, Matching, and Stacking

      Shopping at Home

      I See Something

      Color Time

      Let’s Make a Book

      Reading Time

      Furry Friends

      My Fun Box

      Games for Preschoolers

      3 to 4 Years

      Nursery Rhyme Time

      What Color Did You Eat?

      Describe It

      Does It Belong?

      Game of Opposites

      Can You Say It?

      Follow the Directions

      Listen Up

      In the Box

      Story Telling

      Plant a Garden

      Fun in the Sun

      4 to 5 Years

      What Did You Say?

      Let’s Pretend

      Hunting for Colors

      Searching for Shapes

      Do You Know?

      So Many Words

      Put the Words Together

      Walk in the Snow

      What’s in the Ocean?

      Things I Like

      Silly Stories

      Talk and Listen

      Strategies for Developing Speech & Language Skills

      Introduction

      Early communication between you and your child is essential and begins as early as birth. It’s important to know how to get your child ready for school long before their first ride on a school bus. This book will provide you with creative ideas to help enhance your child’s language skills during the early years. It has many stimulating activities and games that are developmentally appropriate for infants, toddlers and preschoolers. There are animal games, musical sing-a-long games, counting and matching games, story time games, listening games and so much more. These games can be played when you and your child have a few extra minutes during daily routines, whenever you are on the go, or anytime you simply want to have fun together.

      In addition, you will find developmental language milestones from birth to 5 years because so many language skills are acquired during this important expanding period in your child’s life. A compilation of all the strategies and techniques I was taught and use with children in my workplace are also presented within the assorted activities and games included in this book.

      Although children will acquire language at a different rate due to individual differences, your child can naturally learn and develop various communication skills from birth to age five. This development can take place within a language rich environment in conjunction with using specific techniques that will help encourage and stimulate your child’s language growth. Good luck to you and your child as you interact together and remember to keep on talking!

      Finally, many thanks go out to all the children who have brought so much joy into my life and who have given me the opportunity to pass along this little handbook of fun activities and games.

      Developmental Language Milestones

      Birth to 6 Months

      Responds to voice and sound

      Is calmed by familiar friendly voices

      Repeats same sounds

      Makes pleasure sounds, coos, or gurgles

      Cries for hunger or other needs

      Babbles or coos during vocal play

      Smiles happily when spoken to

      Recognizes voices

      Laughs playfully

      Produces /b/, /p/, & /m/ sounds when babbling

      Uses sounds or gestures when in need

      Vocalizes when engaged in self-initiated sound play

      7 to 12 Months

      Responds to and understands own name

      Listens to new words and imitates sounds

      Understands a few new words (e.g., mommy,

      daddy, & bye bye)

      Uses sounds and song-like patterns when babbling

      Imitates sounds or intonation patterns produced by others

      Listens when talked to

      Begins to change babbling type speech to jargon

      Likes simple nursery songs and rhymes

      Produces first true words or word approximations

      Understands simple commands

      Imitates animal noises

      Vocalizes playfully when left alone

      1 to 1 ½ Years

      Uses one or more words with meaning

      Recognizes familiar objects, pictures, and people

      Produces adult like intonation patterns

      Understands simple commands given cues

      Repeats and imitates words over and over again

      Combines gestures, vocalizations, and words

      Imitates words heard

      Enjoys requesting items of interest

      Identifies a few body parts

      Uses many single word utterances

      Begins to have 10 to 20 word vocabulary

      Requests desired objects

      Speech is 25% intelligible to the unfamiliar listener

      l ½ to 2 Years

      Uses more words than jargon

      Identifies 3 to 5 body parts

      Follows simple directions without cues (e.g., come here and sit down)

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