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My Friend Has Down Syndrome
My friend Sarah has Down syndrome. But that doesn't matter to us. We tell jokes and laugh, go to ballet class together, and have a lot of fun.
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My Friend Isabelle
My Friend Isabelle encourages us to think about why friendships are special and how our differences can make the world more interesting.
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My Sister is Special
A child-friendly look at Rachel, a girl with Down syndrome. Her brother Nathan shows us that everyone is made special and different, including his sister.
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Off We Go for a Haircut
Part of the Off We Go! Series, this book gently walks the reader through everyday events, touching on things that might upset or confuse him or her.
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Off We Go to the Dentist
Part of the Off We Go! Series, this book gently walks the reader through everyday events, touching on things that might upset or confuse him or her.
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We'll Paint the Octopus Red
Emma has big dreams for the new baby. Then she learns that her brother has Down Syndrome...
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Printed Material
A Life Book About Me
A workbook developed by the SFChild Project for children to fill with memories and facts about their life.
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Adults with Down Syndrome
Examines social, clinical, legal, and personal issues individuals with Down syndrome must navigate. Provides information and advice on topics such as social relationships, medical and mental health issues, sexuality, employment, recreation, and more.
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Babies With Down Syndrome: A New Parent's Guide
Comprehensive, compassionate guide offering information and support for the new parents of a child with Down Syndrome. Covers a wide range of topics from emotions to health concerns to legal issues.
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Bebes con sindrome de Down
This new edition incorporates the latest scientific, medical, educational research, and practical information available, as well as parents suggestions and feedback. Existing chapters have been revised, some completely rewritten by new authors, and in keeping with its parent-friendly reputation, most of the book's contributors are parents of children with Down syndrome.
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Brain Rules for Baby
Instructs parents on raising intelligent and emotionally stable children, from newborns to toddlers, by encouraging healthy brain activity and development and debunking traditional and contemporary "brain-boosting" methods.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Children with Special Needs
A collection of inspirational true stories about the joys and challenges of working with, parenting, and being around children with special needs.
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Common Threads
An inspiring account of the accomplishments of 59 people with Down Syndrome across the U.S. and Canada.
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Communicate With Your Child
Based on the 25 year ECO Language Intervention project, this book presents easy to use guides for helping children in critical stages of development.
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Count Us In
Authors share their experiences of growing up with Down syndrome.
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Down Syndrome Parenting 101
This book offers advice on everything from celebrating a Down Syndrome child's unique personality and seeing him for who he is to insisting he finish his chores and ensuring he has the space to be his own person as an adult.
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Down Syndrome Transition Handbook, The
This book helps parents with the enormous and often overwhelming task of preparing a child with Down syndrome or other intellectual disability for adulthood. It is full of tips and instructions for envisioning their child's future, developing a transition plan, and seeing it through.
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Down Syndrome: Living and Learning in the Community
This book will prove an invaluable tool for parents and health care professionals, enabling people with Down syndrome to cope with the problems they face and participate to the fullest in community life.
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Early Communication Skills for Children with Down Syndrome
A guide to maximizing the communication development of children with Down syndrome that focuses on speech and language development from birth through age five.
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Fasten Your Seatbelt: a crash course on Down syndrome for brothers and sisters
Introduces the illness, how it is detected and diagnosed, current treatments, and the daily lives of individuals affected by Down syndrome, with coping advice for siblings.
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Fine Motor Skills for Children with Down Syndrome
This guide for parents and professionals explains the best practices and procedures for helping children master the finger and hand skills needed for home and school activities.
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Gifts 2: How People with Down Syndrome Enrich the World
Includes more than seventy inspirational essays from family, friends, teachers, coaches, and medical professionals who recount the gifts--acceptance, courage, friendship, awareness and the joy they receive from knowing and caring about someone with Down Syndrome.
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Gifts: Mothers Reflect on How Children with Down Syndrome Enrich Their Lives
In this candid and poignant collection of personal stories, sixty-three mothers describe the gifts of respect, strength, delight, perspective, and love which their child with Down syndrome has brought into their lives.
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Gluten-Free Food for Kids
With this cookbook, parents learn how to cook food without gluten that children will eat, how to read labels for hidden ingredients, and how to prepare food without fear of contamination.
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Gluten-Free Kids: Raising happy, healthy children with celiac disease, autism, and other conditions
Full of practical strategies and reassuring tips, this books help teach children with celiac disease, as well as those who are gluten-free for other reasons, to adjust to the GF diet, manage behavior, and more.
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Gross Motor Skills in Children with Down Syndrome
This guide illustrates more than 100 activities for parents and professionals to practice with children with Down Syndrome from birth through age six.
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Guide to Good Health for Teens & Adults with Down Syndrome, The
This guide covers the complete scope of healthcare and wellness needs for adolescents and adults with Down syndrome. Topics include: commonly occurring medical issues, connection between mental and physical health, long term health, end-of-life issues, and specific medical conditions.
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Handwriting Without Tears 1st Grade: My Printing Book
This student workbook designed to accompany the Printing Teacher's Guide facilitates learning of proper posture, paper and pencil skills; as well as letter, word and sentence writing.
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Handwriting Without Tears 1st Grade: Teacher's Guide
A teacher's guide to multisensory lessons and activities, designed to accompany the Handwriting Without Tears 1st Grade: My Printing Book workbook.
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Handwriting Without Tears Kindergarten: Letters and Numbers for Me
This student workbook designed to accompany the Printing Teacher's Guide facilitates learning of proper posture, paper and pencil skills; as well as letter, word and sentence writing.
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Handwriting Without Tears Kindergarten: Teacher's Guide
A teacher's guide to multisensory lessons and activities, designed to accompany the Handwriting Without Tears Kindergarten: Letters and Numbers workbook.
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Handwriting Without Tears Pre-K: Get Set for School
This student workbook designed to accompany the Printing Teacher's Guide facilitates learning of proper posture, paper and pencil skills; as well as letter, word and sentence writing.
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Handwriting Without Tears Pre-K: Teacher's Guide
A teacher's guide to multisensory lessons and activities, designed to accompany the Handwriting Without Tears Pre-K: Get Set For School workbook.
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Help Your Young Child Think
An activities workbook created by PAMF pediatrician, Dr. Jane Chen, intended to help special needs children develop "pre" preschool skills.
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Helping Children with Down Syndrome Communicate Better
This book covers the scope of speech and language issues important for children with Down Syndrome reaching the age of 6, from understanding language pragmatics to building conversation skills.
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I'm Down with You
This collection of portraits and essays will take you on an inspired journey with the people of the Down syndrome community. Includes essays by Sharon Stone, Anthony Shriver, and John McGinley.
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Incredible 5-Point Scale, The
The objective of this book is to illustrate how to utilize a simple 5-point scale to support a program for teaching social understanding. The book is intended to assist students with autism spectrum disorders in understanding social interactions and controlling their emotional responses.
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Kitchen Classroom, The
This book contains 32 gluten-free/casein-free recipes with step-by-step directions with symbols indicating which steps are opportunities to get sensory input or to practice literacy, math, science, fine or gross motor skills, language, communication, and social skills.
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Late, Lost, and Unprepared: A parents' guide to helping children with executive functioning
This book is a practical, down-to-earth guide for parents of children and adolescents who have difficulty with planning and organization, self-monitoring, impulse control, working memory, and initiating tasks.
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Learning Language and Loving It
A guide to promoting children's social and language development in early childhood settings, this book emphasizes the principles of the Hanen Language Program for early childhood educators.
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Managing my Money
This workbook teaches banking and budgeting basics to teens and adults with Down Syndrome, autism, and other intellectual disabilities who can use a calculator and have prerequisite math and handwriting skills at a first-grade level or higher.
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Married with Special-Needs Children: A couples' guide to keeping connected
This book eases concerns and addresses a broad range of marital and parenting issues of couples with a child with disabilities including communication breakdowns, lack of romance and sexual intimacy, conflicts over parenting styles, and more.
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Medical & Surgical Care for Children with Down Syndrome
This book is designed to give parents a complete and easy-to-understand overview of specific medical conditions that are more common among children with Down syndrome including heart disease, gastrointestinal problems, leukemia, dental concerns, eye conditions, and reproductive issues.
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Mental Wellness in Adults with Down Syndrome
This guide clarifies what the common behavioral characteristics of Down syndrome are, how some could be mistaken for mental illness, and what bona fide mental health problems occur in people with Down syndrome.
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Mixed Signals: Understanding and treating your child's sensory processing issues
This book helps parents learn why some sensory systems under- or over-react and what therapies and interventions are available. It also helps parents distinguish between behaviors that are characteristic of other conditions, such as autism, from those that are caused by poor sensory processing.
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More Than a Mom: Living a full and balanced life when your child has special needs
This book is a lifeline of information and advice for mothers who have children with developmental or physical disabilities, mental health or learning issues, or chronic medical conditions. Learn how to pay attention to your own needs, cope with the demands of daily life, juggle career and home, and more.
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New Language of Toys: Teaching Communication Skills to Children with Special Needs, The
A guide for parents and teachers on using toys and multimedia to teach communication skills to children with special needs.
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Next Chapter Book Club: A model community literacy program for people with intellectual disabilities
This book explains how to form and sponsor a book club, find and train volunteer facilitators, attract members, choose a meeting location, build literacy skills, select books, along with many other tips and suggestions.
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Parent's Guide to Down Syndrome, A
Crossing the lifespan, this thorough volume highlights developmental stages and shows recent advances that can improve a child's quality of life. Topics covered include the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) of 1997; innovative services, programs, and support groups; the latest prenatal genetic testing methods; the impact of play on gross motor development; and the association of Down syndrome with other disorders.
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Speech and Language Development for Infants with Down Syndrome
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Teaching by Design: Using your computer to create materials for students with learning differences
Follow the step-by-step instructions and design strategies presented in this book to create over 40 customized educational materials for children and adults with cognitive, sensory, or physical disabilities.
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Teaching Children with Down Syndrome about Their Bodies, Boundaries and Sexuality
In an easy-to-read and disarming style this book gives parents the background and confidence to speak comfortably with their children about their bodies, personal boundaries, privacy, puberty, sexuality, relationships, and abuse prevention.
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Teaching Math to People with Down Syndrome and Other Hands-On Learners
A book for teaching practical math skills to kids and adults with Down syndrome or other learning delays, using hands-on activities that appeal to their learning style. This guide focuses on teaching essential basic math and concepts about time, money, counting, measuring, and more.
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Teaching Reading to Children with Down Syndrome
This book describes a nationally known reading program for children with Down syndrome that ensures success by presenting lessons which are both imaginative and functional and which can be tailored to meet the needs of each student.
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Windows Into Heaven: Stories Celebrating Down Syndrome
A collection of short stories celebrating Down syndrome.
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Wrightslaw: Special Education Law
A complete reference for special education legal rights and responsibilities, including FAPE, Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, Family Educational and Privacy Act, U.S. Supreme Court Decisions, as well as analysis and interpretation.
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You Love Me!!...Don't Accept Me As I Am
Discusses ways in which parents and teachers can help the low functioning person excel. Topics covered include: human modifiability, mediated learning, education, plastic surgery, mainstreaming, and deficient cognitive functions.
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Video & DVD
Baby Signing Time!: A New Day
Learn signs for "new", "outside", "star", and more. Volume 3.
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Baby Signing Time!: Here I Go
Children can learn the signs for shoe, sock, bike, Thank You, Sorry, and more as they learn how to communicate before even learning how to speak. Volume 2.
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Baby Signing Time!: It's Baby Signing Time
Teaches American Sign Language combining signing infants, animation, music, and an adult to model each sign. Volume 1.
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Baby Signing Time!: Let's Be Friends
Join Hopkins, Alex, and Leah as they learn everyday signs such as friends, emotions, fruits, vegetables, opposites, and many more. Volume 4.
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My Baby Can Talk
Teaches babies American Sign Language in a format that delights the senses while tapping into a baby's natural language abilities.
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Potty Time
Potty Time works with any potty training method you choose. Signs facilitate potty training for infants and toddlers, so there's no need to wait. Playful songs help children want to use the potty.
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Signing Time!: ABC Signs
Teaches the alphabet in American Sign Language, and introduces more than 50 signs for words corresponding to different letters. Volume 5.
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Signing Time!: Box of Crayons
Learn signs for colors. Series 2, Volume 12
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Signing Time!: Days of the Week
Learn signs for the days of the week, and see what some families do on each day. You'll also learn to sign first, second, third, and so on. Series 2, Volume 6
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Signing Time!: Everyday Signs
Teaches American Sign Language combining signing children and infants, animation and music, and an adult to model each sign. Volume 3.
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Signing Time!: Family, Feelings & Fun
Teaches American Sign Language combining signing children and infants, animation and music, and an adult to model each sign. Volume 4.
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Signing Time!: Going Outside
Learn signs for many of the beautiful things in nature. Series 2, Volume 5
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Signing Time!: Happy Birthday to You
Little viewers are invited to Leah's birthday party where they can learn how to wish "Happy Birthday" and other signs to celebrate this special occasion. Series 2, Volume 2.
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Signing Time!: Helping Out Around the House
Enjoy doing household chores as you sing and sign while working. Series 2, Volume 10.
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Signing Time!: Leah's Farm
Learn the signs for your favorite barnyard animals plus things you see around the farm. Signs include rabbit, frog, snake, turtle, chicken, and more. Volume 7.
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Signing Time!: Move and Groove
Learn all the signs you need to know to get movin' and groovin'. Series 2, Volume 3
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Signing Time!: My Day
Teaches signs about everything in your daily routine - waking up, getting dressed, playing, and going to bed. Volume 10.
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Signing Time!: My Favorite Season
Sing and sign your way through the changing seasons. Series 2, Volume 4.
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Signing Time!: My Favorite Sport
Learn signs for Alex and Leah's favorite sports. Series 2, Volume 7
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Signing Time!: My Favorite Things
Teaches signs for the colors of the rainbow, fruits and vegetables, and activities. Volume 6.
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Signing Time!: My First Signs
Teaches signs for your child's very first words. Volume 1.
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Signing Time!: My House
Take a singing and signing tour of the rooms in a house. Series 2, Volume 8
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Signing Time!: My Neighborhood
Teaches signs for playground activities, vehicles, places to go and people to see around town. Volume 11.
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Signing Time!: My Things
Learn signs for lots of your things. Some signs included are: "socks", "clean up", and "closet". Series 2, Volume 9
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Signing Time!: Nice to Meet You
Rachel teaches signs that will help you make new friends and greet your old ones. Series 2, Volume 1.
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Signing Time!: Once Upon A Time
Learn signs for stories and books, such as "Once upon a time", "read", and "beginning". Series 2, Volume 11
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Signing Time!: Playtime Signs
Teaches signs for manners and playtime. Volume 2.
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Signing Time!: The Great Outdoors
Teaches signs for woodland animals, bugs and things found in nature. Volume 8.
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Signing Time!: The Zoo Train
Teaches signs for favorite zoo animals and ocean creatures. Volume 9.
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Signing Time!: Time to Eat
Teaches signs about cooking, eating, and favorite foods. Volume 12.
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Signing Time!: Welcome to School
Teaches signs about people, objects, and activities in the classroom. Volume 13.
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Signing Time!: Who Has the Frog?
Learn to sign questions using who, what, where, when, why, how, and which. Series 2, Volume 13.
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Talk Tools: As a Parent: What Can I Do to Improve my Child's Feeding Skills and Speech Clarity
This video presents exercises to improve your child's speech clarity and feeding safety. The exercises are presented in a hierarchy of very small steps which will ensure your child will not only make progress but will have fun doing so.
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Talk Tools: Assessment and Treatment of the Jaw
Presents a program to provide step-by-step techniques to diagnose and treat jaw instability and weakness.
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Talk Tools: Developing Oral-Motor and Feeding Skills in the Down Syndrome Population
A six hour seminar focusing on the development of oral-motor and feeding skills in the Down syndrome population from birth to adulthood.
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Talk Tools: Organizing the Mouth for Feeding and Speech
This video addresses the impact of sensory issues on feeding, speech, and language development. It highlights assessment and treatment strategies for oral-sensory dysfunction.
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Talk Tools: Tongue Thrust Therapy
This program will teach effective ways to help children remediate articulation errors including persistent lisps, interdentalized productions of t-d-l-n, and distortions of sh-ch-r. The program targets the root of the speech problem, which is often a tongue thrust disorder.
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