Summary: Join Hopkins, Alex, and Leah as they learn everyday signs such as friends, emotions, fruits, vegetables, opposites, and many more. Songs include Can you feel it?, Toy box, Show me a sign, and That tastes good.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Two Little Hands Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BABSummary: This video teaches parents to hear exactly what their babies are communicating. Every newborn communicates, and from birth to 3 months uses five distinct sounds that signal hunger, tiredness, need to burp, lower wind/gas and discomfort, based on physical reflex responses. For instance, when hungry a baby will start to suck and the sound produced during this action is the 'word' for hunger. ...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dunstan Baby Pty. Ltd. 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 618.44 DUNLathey, Nicola
Summary: "An essential guide to language development, from babbling to first words to full sentences, plus early signs of anxiety, autism, or ADHD"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401 LATSteyns, Lee Ann
Summary: "My first baby signs teaches basic signs that provide families with a way to communicate before babies can talk at all. The picture book format keeps the learning fun while introducing over 40 key American Sign Language (ASL) signs in context- each with their own visual and written guide. Your little one will learn to express their needs, wants, and frustrations with simple gestures-and you...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peter Pauper Press, Inc. 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 419 STESedivy, Julie
Summary: "As immigrants and others are engulfed by dominant societies, the connection to their ancestral tongues is routinely severed. Julie Sedivy takes on the science and politics of language loss, offering lessons for the renewal and preservation of heritage languages, alongside her own moving story of language loss and accompanying personal crisis"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401 SEDDenworth, Lydia
Summary: "An investigation into the science of hearing, child language acquisition, neuroplasticity, brain development, and Deaf culture spurred by Lydia Denworth's discovery that her son couldn't hear her lullabies and the family's life-altering decision to givehim a cochlear implant. Lydia Denworth's third son, Alex, was almost two when he was diagnosed with profound and progressive hearing loss. As...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 617.89 DENKinzler, Katherine D.
Summary: "We gravitate toward people like us; it's human nature. Race, class, and gender affect this social identity, but one overlooked factor can be even more powerful: the way we speak. As pioneering psychologist Katherine Kinzler reveals in How You Say It, that's because our speech largely reflects the voices we heard as children. We can change how we speak to some extent, whether by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 302.2 KINGarcia, W. Joseph.
Summary: A guide for hearing parents demonstrates how they can teach their hearing infants to communicate with simple sign language gestures before they can speak.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northlight Communications 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 649.1 GGarcia 1999Garcia, W. Joseph.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sign2Me 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 419 GARSowell, Thomas
Summary: The painful and baffling mystery as to why some obviously bright children do not begin talking until long after the "normal" time is explored in this book through personal experiences and the findings of scientific research. The author's own experiences as the father of such a child led to the formation of a group of more than fifty sets of parents of similar children. The anguish and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BasicBooks 1997
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Summary: Some of these animals are not like the others. They look different or do something different from the rest. A playful search and find book about emotions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Clavis Pub. 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401.93 GOLJackendoff, Ray
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Publisher / Publication Date: BasicBooks 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 401.9 JACLaikko, Teresa
Summary: "Are you concerned that your child is not verbalizing? The solution may be as simple as a game. Talking with Your Toddler teaches you how to stimulate speech using everyday play. It makes learning to talk fun and engaging for your child. With proven therapies and easy-to-follow activities, Talking with Your Toddler makes an ideal home companion"--‡cPage 4 of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ulysses Press 2016
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Summary: This book takes a child-led approach to encouraging language development. We hope you enjoy discovering more about how language grows and ways you can choose to nourish its development in your child. The main focus in this book is on babies and young children. As it's useful to see the progression of language development throughout all the preschool years, we've included milestones up to age...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Finch Publishing 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Parent-Teacher Collection, Call number: JPT 401 MACRajan, Rekha S.
Summary: "We have always known that reading aloud is an important way to bond with your baby and develop language skills. Now neuroscience research is showing us the long-term benefit that reading aloud has for children-all the way into adulthood. Author Rekha S.Rajan was part of current research that shows individuals who were read to more frequently as children had a measurably healthier brain in old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Parenting Press 2023