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Read to Your Child Every Day
Read to Rise encourages parents and caregivers develop the habit of reading aloud to children from birth to ensure they’re best prepared to start school. Each day you read, log reading log on a paper log on in the reading app. Earn a prize for every 90 days you read to your child. Prizes include a growth chart, a color changing cup, and a free book!
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Language acquisition and development in hearing children is explored on this DVD. Through each stage of development, from infancy to the schoolage years, language becomes more complex and understanding broadens. While children are learning to speak, they are also learning skills which enable them to read and write. This DVD explores how the acquisition of language is influenced by the adults who interact with the child and by the society or culture...
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"Oftentimes a child's deafness can be as disconcerting to the uniformed adult as it is debilitating to the deaf child. Yet parents, students, and teachers who try to inform themselvs find doing so difficult: the issues are emotional ath too often have been the subject of clashes among professional and lay people. In this comprehensive study, Meadow provides a rational, informed, and balanced approach. Individual chapters survey the central work done...
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"The founder and director of the Thirty Million Words Initiative, Professor Dana Suskind, explains why the most important--and astoundingly simple--thing you can do for your child's future success in life is to talk to him or her, reveals the recent science behind this truth, and outlines precisely how parents can best put it into practice" --
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For many young children with Down syndrome, the ability to express their thoughts verbally develops more slowly than their ability to understand language. To overcome this obstacle to communication, many parents and professionals are using a total communication approach--combining speech with sign language--to help young children with Down syndrome to express their thoughts and needs, and develop positive bonds with their families. On this video,...
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Lillian Hubler and friends teach sign language for children the fun way using music, games, and play. Geared for parents, childcare professionals, and children. Signs for greetings, family, manners, colors, animals, food, and utensils are presented plus the alphabet and numbers are demonstrated. The DVD culminates with 17 east-to-learn songs and three short stories.
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