Talking Together:
A Parent's Guide to the Development, Enrichment, and Problems of Speech and Language
by Katherine F. Schetz and Stuart Kent Cassell, Jr., Illustrated by Pamela G. Taylor.

• In this illustrated guide -- a Parent Council Ltd. selection -- for parents and other care-givers, Schetz and Cassell team up to provide the information caregivers need in order to understand how children develop the ability to communicate.

• They also discuss briefly how to recognize any problems early on, give guides to related development of other skills and abilities, and provide diary pages to record significant developments in the child's life and growth.

• "Learning to talk is one of the most important things we accomplish in our early years. Saying words, however, means nothing if there isn't someone to listen to what we have to say....Most of us take the development of speech and language for granted. It is not, however, something that naturally occurs, like sitting up or walking. Up until about six months of age, all infants will make cooing and babbling sounds, but after this time an infant must be able to hear speech in order to move through the stages of language development that involve the use of words."

• ISBN 978-0-936015-45-3
  • vi + 82 pages, 9 3/4 inches x 8 inches, paperbound, 1994
  • LC 94-34225
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