Product Description: Communicative Musicality explores the intrinsic musical nature of human interaction. The theory of communicative musicality was developed from groundbreaking studies showing how in mother/infant communication there exist noticeable patterns of timing, pulse, voice timbre, and gesture...read more

Since 2004, Baby Sign Language Basics has introduced hundreds of thousands of parents and caregivers around the globe to the miracle of signing with their babies – and left them wanting more! Now, in this new bigger edition, Monta Briant provides more than 300 American Sign Language (ASL) signs, illustrated with the same clear, easy-to-understand photos and descriptions. Baby-specific signing techniques, songs, and games are also included to make learning fun and open up two way communication quickly. In this special DVD edition, parents will meet real signing families and learn how to make sign language a part of their every day interactions with their children. Also included on the DVD is a video signing dictionary featuring all the signs from the book. Just point and click and see the sign you want to learn come alive! This book/DVD set is a must-have for all parents, grandparents, anyone else who spends time with preverbal children. After all, what parent or caregiver doesn't want to know what their baby is trying to tell them?

Product Description: The Essential Parenting Guide- NOW COMPLETELY UPDATED AND EXPANDED! In 1982, child development experts Linda Acredolo, Ph.D., and Susan Goodwyn, Ph.D., discovered that babies can communicate with simple signs-even before they're able to talk...read more

Product Description: Speech, verbally mediated consciousness, and culture most evidently differentiate people from animals. Moreover, verbal communication has historically been viewed as a human attribute. Yet, the biological precursors to verbal communication exist in animal communication: obvious links have been found between human and animal nonverbal vocal communication...read more

Product Description: The concept of "intersubjectivity" has emerged as a common denominator in approaches to infant communication and children's understanding of thought and emotion in others. This book brings together for the first time leading international figures in psychology, psychopathology, sociology, and primatology to address the key question of the role of intersubjectivity in early development...read more

Product Description: Two Christian parenting educators describe five ways we can connect with our children: physical touch, quality time, words of affirmation, gifts, and acts of service. These initiatives, when geared to the preferences of each child, make them feel loved and, thus, more receptive to guidance and redirection when needed...read more

Product Description: Why are thousands of hearing parents signing with their hearing babies? According to a long-term study at UC Davis, funded by the National Institutes of Health, signing babies:   •            talk sooner and have larger vocabularies •            have stronger parent/child bonds •            have less frustration, crying and tantrums •            show more interest in books •            engage in more sophisticated play •            have increased IQ scores   Signing also increases baby’s self-esteem and gives parents a window into their child’s mind and personality...read more

Product Description: The Secret Language of Children is:--An unspoken language that all children use--An amazing door into your child's inner world--Your greatest tool for raising emotionally healthy kidsWith this groundbreaking book, Dr. Lawrence Shapiro, a leading child psychologist, shows you how to understand this amazing world of communication, and the joys and rewards it can bring...read more

Product Description: Carl and David were talking about older brothers. "My big brother is eight," said Carl.Not to be outdone, David said, "When I'm ten I'll beat your big brother.""No, you won't; he'll be eleven," said Carl.David kept claiming he would be older than Carl's brother...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Since the dawn of time, the peanut gallery has been driving their parents crazy—occasionally entertaining them—with the same phrases uttered over and over and over again. Kids are never neutral on any subject. Nor are they always understood...read more

Product Description: Based on a huge body of research in child language and communication development, Children's Communication Skills uses a clear format to set out the key stages of communication development in babies and young children. Its aim is to increase awareness in professionals working with children of what constitutes human communication and what communication skills to expect at any given stage...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

A noted psychotherapist offers a perceptive guide to what children say, what they really mean, and how to cope with it, providing parents with a series of effective strategies for responding to provocative statements, decoding the emotional message behind a child's words, and establishing meaningful parent-child communications. Original. 15,000 first printing.

A psychologist and author walks readers through the often difficult process of talking to children about difficult topics, offering practical advice on how to discuss war, school shootings, terrorism, and other traumatic events. Original. (view table of contents)

Product Description: At a time when expectations and assumptions about the delivery of services to children and adolescents are being reconfigured - for example, around the rights of children and adolescents as young citizens - adults are seeking to ensure that they deliver services in creative and empowering ways, ensuring that the opinions of young people are actively solicited and encouraged...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Through baby signing that parents can teach to their children, youngsters can communicate when they want more, when something is too hot, or even to let everyone know the food is 'all gone!'

Product Description: A brief, supplemental text for teachers, parents, and caregivers who wish to better communicate with children ages 2-5 about sensitive or difficult topics. The objective of this book is to inform and educate teachers, parents, and other caregivers on how to interact with children ages 2 - 5 and respond appropriately to issues of personal concern...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Why Children Make Up Stories is an exploration in recognizing the underlying reasons children make up stories, respond to questions, and describe situations from the reality of their viewpoints. Social workers, psychologists and counselors, child protective specialists, and law enforcement officers can use this book as a guide when they are investigating cases with children and writing reports. The book is very useful to those dealing with false-memory syndrome and its effects. (view table of contents)

Drawing from years of experience working with children and researching their ways of thinking, two child behavioral experts offer a practical and enlightening look at how children interpret what adults say, showing how understanding their logic can aid intergenerational communication. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: Drawing on parent's reports of more than 1,800 children, this Monograph describes in detail both typical and exceptional courses of communicative development between the ages of eight and thirty months. The authors' large dataset offers unusually specific information on the developmentally variable course of individual lexical, gestural, and grammatical skills...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the past decade, psychology has increasingly acknowledged the importance of considering the role of culture for understanding human development. One of the major issues now confronting those interested in this issue is how cultural meanings, values, and practices are appropriated by persons growing up and living in concrete contexts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A Parents' Choice Winner, "Tips and Tools for Getting Thru to Kids" offers a wide variety of highly-usable tools to build children's self-esteem and character. Designed to be used with pre-schoolers to teens, it offers 25 tools with accompanying tips that include: *The three keys to successful listening...read more

Product Description: The concept of "intersubjectivity" has emerged as a common denominator in approaches to infant communication and children's understanding of thought and emotion in others. This book brings together for the first time leading international figures in psychology, psychopathology, sociology, and primatology to address the key question of the role of intersubjectivity in early development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)