I am a special educator and BCBA, and I have a daughter with a speech delay. This book is a wonderful resource for parents and educators alike. It includes useful strategies and tips that all audiences can benefit from.

Fantastic book. It’s a very reassuring book fir parents and offers a plethora of ideas to encourage babbling to talking and communicating and reasons for the ideas.. As a grandparent it gave me play ideas and reassurance that my 20 month old grandson is doing fine with his verbal skills.

As a speech-language pathologist (SLP) with over 20 years of experience, primarily with children ages birth thru five, I am always looking for tools and resources to better equip parents. Because I have a Master’s degree in speech language pathology (communication disorders), I was well equipped as a new mom to help enrich and develop my children's speech and language skills. Not every parent, nor pediatrician, has the benefit of years of training and experience as I had, but this book is an excellent resource for any parent or doctor.

The authors, one being an experienced SLP herself, and the other an editor and mother, have written a book that can help any parent (or pediatrician) understand not only what typical developmental communication milestones are, but also how to help stimulate and grow their child’s speech and language skills. The information is organized in chapters chronologically in development as well as in informative categories, such as what to do if your child has a tongue tie. I feel that any parent can be even better equipped to help their child develop and grow with the tools and information this book provides them. The authors stress the importance of time, attention, modeling and repetition to help any child learn to communicate. I especially appreciate them describing specific songs, games, finger plays, and toy that can be useful speech and language tools to any parent or caregiver.

Thank you, NetGalley, for the chance to read an ARC in exchange for my honest feedback.

This book was eye opening and an informative read. I have a Grandson who just turned four and doesn’t speak. He might say ten words. This book is geared toward a toddler but I imagine once we start speech therapy many of the ideas shared will be used to help him.

I feel like we should have acted sooner but with COVID everything has been backed up and staffing issues. This was a great idea for a book but I think my Grandson is more in the autistic spectrum. There were so few chapters on this but I understand this wasn’t a book for diagnosing autism. I did enjoy the ideas it gave to mirror play.

Kudos to the author for sensing a need for this kind of help. I hope there are many children helped from this book!

I received a complimentary copy to read and voluntarily left this review.