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Communication and Language Development
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Building Preverbal Communication & Engagement
Triadic Gaze Intervention for Young Children With Disabilities and Their Families
COMING SOON
By Lesley B. Olswang, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Julie Feuerstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, & Gay Lloyd Pinder, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, C/NDT
Many children with disabilities and their families struggle to connect early in life and need support developing early communication skills—and now there’s a comprehensive resource to help birth-to-three practitioners deliver that critical support to young children with disabilities and their families. This accessible guidebook will help professionals harness the power of Triadic Gaze Intervention (TGI), an evidence-based strategy that supports the development of early communication behaviors—gaze, gestures, and vocalizations—in young children with disabilities. Through a straightforward protocol, practitioners will learn powerful techniques for helping caregivers engage young children during everyday routines and build their preverbal communication skills.
READERS WILL: • Learn about the six elements of the authors’ PoWRRS-Connect protocol for implementing TGI • Use the protocol to help children make progress toward IFSP goals related to communication and engagement • Tailor the protocol for individual children with a range of disabilities and needs, including motor, sensory, or social impairments • Embed opportunities for communication and engagement into each family’s authentic routines • Facilitate stronger collaborative partnerships with caregivers
$49.95 | Stock #: 21206-54661 | November 2021 | approx. 200 pages | 8 1/2 x 11 | paperback | ISBN 978-1-68125-466-1
Augmentative & Alternative Communication
Supporting Children and Adults with Complex Communication Needs, Fifth Edition
By David R. Beukelman, Ph.D., & Janice C. Light, Ph.D., with invited contributors
The authoritative text on augmentative and alternative communication, this bestseller is now in its fifth edition—revised and updated for a new generation of professionals.
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NEW INFORMATION ON: • Collaborating with family members and other communication partners • Making the most of mobile technologies and AAC apps • Selecting an AAC system and tailoring it to individual needs • Working effectively with families from diverse cultural backgrounds • Supporting inclusion across the lifespan • Providing communication supports to people with autism ONLINE COMPANION MATERIALS: A resource guide to help practitioners and students learn more about AAC, sample responses to study questions, and a sample syllabus.
NEW
Second Edition
Edited by A. Lynn Williams, Ph.D., Sharynne McLeod, Ph.D., & Rebecca J. McCauley, Ph.D.
An essential building block of every SLP’s professional preparation, the second edition of this bestselling text is a comprehensive critical analysis of 21 interventions for speech sound disorders (SSD) in children. Bringing together a powerhouse team of international experts, this new edition has been enhanced with current research, new interventions, more guidance on selecting interventions, and updated video clips. For each intervention, readers will get a clear explanation of its evidence base, plus guidance on implementing the approach, monitoring progress, and using the intervention with children from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
WHAT’S NEW: • 18 high-quality video clips that offer a vivid inside look at intervention techniques in action • Expanded information on choosing interventions and implementing them with fidelity • New featured interventions, including Dynamic Temporal and Tactile Cueing and biofeedback approaches • Up-to-date research on SSD and interventions, including
Levels of Evidence tables • In-depth discussion of how the interventions relate to the
World Health Organization’s framework for enhancing participation • New learning activities
Multimodal AAC for Individuals with Down Syndrome NEW
Edited by Krista M. Wilkinson, Ph.D., & Lizbeth H. Finestack, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
In this groundbreaking book, discover how augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) can enhance communicative competence and improve outcomes for people with Down syndrome across the lifespan. The newest volume in Beukelman and Light’s respected Augmentative and Alternative Communication Series, this book fully explores how interdisciplinary, multimodal AAC strategies can promote speech, language, and literacy success across many contexts, including homes, schools, communities, health care settings, and the workplace. Learn how to pair unaided AAC supports with aided AAC, enhance reading instruction using AAC, engage families as collaborative partners, and much more.
$49.95 | Stock #: 21206-54128 | 2021 | 296 pages | 7 x 10 | paperback | ISBN 978-1-68125-412-8
Treatment of Language Disorders in Children
Second Edition
Edited by Rebecca J. McCauley, Ph.D., Marc E. Fey, Ph.D., & Ronald B. Gillam, Ph.D.
This classic text prepares future SLPs to evaluate, compare, select, and apply effective interventions for language disorders in DVD children. Using realistic case studies and many new video clips that show each strategy in action, the expert contributors introduce readers to 14 research-based intervention models and examine practical ways to apply them. The second edition covers interventions for both emerging communication and language and more advanced language and literacy, in a consistent chapter format that makes it easy to compare treatment approaches. STUDENT-FRIENDLY MATERIALS: A video clip to illustrate each intervention (on the included DVD and available online); case studies; learning activities
MacArthur-Bates CDIs
By Larry Fenson, Ph.D., Virginia A. Marchman, Ph.D., Donna J. Thal, Ph.D., Philip S. Dale, Ph.D., J. Steven Reznick, Ph.D., & Elizabeth Bates, Ph.D.
MacArthur-Bates Inventarios
By Donna Jackson-Maldonado, Ph.D., Donna J. Thal, Ph.D., Virginia A. Marchman, Ph.D., Larry Fenson, Ph.D., Tyler Newton, M.A., & Barbara Conboy, Ph.D.
Tap into parents’ knowledge about their children’s language and communication skills with the standardized, parent-completed CDIs and their Spanish adaptation, the Inventarios. Both include: • A words and gestures form (ages 8–18 months) documenting the child’s understanding and production of early vocabulary items and communicative and symbolic gestures. • A words and sentences form (ages 16–30 months) documenting production of words and early forms of grammar. • CDI-III, a CDI extension for ages 30–37 months that measures expressive vocabulary and grammar. • User’s Guide and Technical Manual
FREE INFANT-TODDLER CHECKLIST! Download your free CSBS DP™ ITC today for a quick, valid way to screen early communication skills in children ages 6–24 months: bit.ly/csbs-dp And to ensure fast, error-free ITC scoring, add the Easy-Score™ CD-ROM:
CDIs Set User’s Guide, 25 of each form, & CDI-III $123.95 | Stock #: 21206-S1032 | 2007 CDIs Set (NCS scannable version) User’s Guide, 20 of each form, & CDI-III $124.95 | Stock #: 21206-S1030 | 2007 Inventarios Set User’s Guide & 25 of each form $90.00 | Stock #: 21206-66208 | 2003 Fillable PDF versions of CDI forms: CDI Words and Sentences E-Form (English) $77.00 | Stock #: 21206-51226 | ISBN 978-1-68125-122-6
CDI Words and Gestures E-Form (English) $77.00 | Stock #: 21206-51219 | ISBN 978-1-68125-121-9
Forms and User’s Guides also sold separately; see www.brookespublishing.com
$99.95 | Stock #: 21206-65607
CSBS DP™ and Easy-Score™ are trademarks of Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc
Dynamic Evaluation of Motor Speech Skill (DEMSS)
By Edythe A. Strand, Ph.D., & Rebecca J. McCauley, Ph.D.
When a young child has a severe speech sound disorder—especially one severe enough to affect the child’s intelligibility—it’s critical to determine the degree to which motor speech impairment contributes to the disorder. Now there’s a dynamic, criterion-referenced assessment that helps SLPs do just that. Use the Dynamic Evaluation of Motor Speech Skill (DEMSS) to: • Diagnose severe speech sound disorders in children 3 and older • Facilitate, confirm, or rule out a diagnosis of CAS • Estimate the severity of a child’s disorder and what their prognosis might be • Inform the development of treatment goals • Make decisions about the most effective methods of cueing during treatment STUDENT-FRIENDLY MATERIALS: A video clip to illustrate each intervention (on the included DVD and available online); case studies; learning activities
NEW
A followup to the bestselling One Child, Two Languages!
Teaching Dual Language Learners
What Early Childhood Educators Need to Know
By Lisa M. López, Ph.D., & Mariela Páez, Ed.D.
As the number of dual language learners (DLLs) in early childhood settings continues to rise, educators need to know how to teach, engage, and assess children from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. They’ll have the proven strategies they need with this timely book, a reader-friendly guide that extends the groundbreaking work of Patton O. Tabors and connects research to practice for teachers.
TEACHERS WILL LEARN HOW TO • Connect and work with diverse families • Implement specific, evidence-based classroom practices that promote the learning of young DLLs • Use best practices to help DLL children develop language and early literacy skills • Assess the learning of DLLs in culturally valid and linguistically appropriate ways • Implement assessment practices that inform instruction PRACTICAL MATERIALS: Five in-depth case studies of diverse children, learning objectives, guiding questions, self-study and reflection activities, and downloadable forms, including a case study template for child observations.
$39.95 | Stock #: 21206-53848 | 2021 | 200 pages | 7 x 10 | paperback | ISBN 978-1-68125-384-8
WATCH THE COFFEE CHAT on best practices for educators working with dual language learners in early childhood settings: http://bit.ly/DLL-Webinar
One Child, Two Languages
A Guide for Early Childhood Educators of Children Learning English as a Second Language, Second Edition
By Patton O. Tabors, Ed.D.
—Fred Genesee, Ph.D., McGill University
Ideal for professional development, this book-and-CD set is an invaluable tool for supporting the language and literacy development of second language learners while honoring their home languages and cultures. Leading researcher Patton Tabors gives teachers reliable research, usable information, and essential tools to meet the needs of second language learners in early learning environments.
$39.95 | Stock #: 21206-69216 | 2008 | 256 pages | 6 x 9 | paperback with CD-ROM | ISBN 978-1-55766-921-6
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Literacy Foundations for English Learners
Edited by Elsa CárdenasHagan, Ed.D., CCC-SLP, CDT, CALT, QI
Millions of English learners attend U.S. public schools—and yet only a small fraction of education professionals are certified to work with them. Fill that gap in education with this comprehensive text, an evidence-based guide to providing English learners in Pre-K–Grade 6 with explicit, systematic instruction on the key components of language and literacy: phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, spelling, and writing skills. For each component, you’ll get a dedicated chapter with research-based insights on how to teach English learners, guidance on making connections across languages when teaching that component, and ready-to-use principles and strategies for instruction. Learning objectives, study questions, and extended application activities help you grow your knowledge and apply it in classrooms.
$44.95 | Stock #: 21206-79659 | 2020 | 264 pages | 7 x 10 | paperback | ISBN 978-1-59857-965-9
Dual Language Development & Disorders
A Handbook on Bilingualism and Second Language Learning, Third Edition
By Johanne Paradis, Ph.D., Fred Genesee, Ph.D., & Martha B. Crago, Ph.D.
NEW
Prepare SLPs and educators to support the growing population of dual language learners with the third edition of this bestselling text, developed by three influential experts and aligned with Head Start guidelines on cultural and linguistic responsiveness. Updated with the latest research and recommended practices, this book gives future professionals up-to-date guidance on a wide range of key topics, including recognizing the typical stages of second language learning, supporting development in both languages, distinguishing a language delay from a disorder, planning culturally appropriate interventions, addressing reading disorders in bilingual children, and more.
WHAT’S NEW: • New chapter on supporting heritage language development in children with immigration backgrounds • Updated student-friendly features, including learning outcomes at the start of each chapter, tables and figures that illustrate key concepts and research, and Voices from the Field text boxes • Two downloadable parent questionnaires • New online companion materials: discussion questions and class activities for each chapter, plus a final integrative course project
$49.95 | Stock #: 21206-54067 | 2021 | 400 pages | 7 x 10 | paperback | ISBN 978-1-68125-406-7
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BESA Benefits
• Valid and reliable • Culturally and linguistically appropriate • Helps you gauge progress in both languages • Flexible and convenient—use each BESA component independently or combine them as part of an assessment battery
Bilingual English–Spanish Assessment™ (BESA™)
By Elizabeth D. Peña, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Vera F. Gutiérrez-Clellen, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Aquiles Iglesias, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Brian A. Goldstein, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, & Lisa M. Bedore, Ph.D., CCC-SLP
When a young bilingual child experiences language difficulties, it can be hard to tell if those challenges are due to a disorder or just limited exposure to the English language. Now there’s a valid, reliable assessment that specifically responds to the needs of young Spanish-English bilingual children. For use with children ages 4 through 6 years who have varying degrees of bilingualism, the Bilingual English–Spanish Assessment (BESA) was developed to: • Identify phonological and/or language impairment in bilingual children and English language learners using a standardized protocol • Differentiate between a delay in English language acquisition and a true language disorder • Document children’s speech and language strengths and needs • Monitor children's progress in both languages and use the information to make decisions about intervention
BESA KIT (Test Manual, stimulus book, protocols in English and Spanish, BIOS forms, and ITALK forms) INTRODUCTORY PRICE: $550.00 | Stock #: 21206-52797 | 2018 | ISBN 978-1-68125-279-7 Bilingual English–Spanish Assessment and BESA are trademarks of Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., Inc.
Connecting Through Talk
Nurturing Children’s Development With Language
By David K. Dickinson, Ed.D., & Ann B. Morse, M.Ed.
How do responsive adult–child interactions influence early language development? How do a child’s language skills develop in tandem with social-emotional development, executive function, and literacy? What are effective ways to help parents support their child’s development? Uncover the answers questions in this fascinating book, which draws on current research to examine connections between language, social-emotional, and literacy development and profiles programs that support this development. You’ll begin with a research-based examination of critical topics such as how children learn the building blocks of language and literacy and what language-rich parent–child exchanges look like. Building on this knowledge, the book gives you snapshots of more than a dozen programs that support language and literacy development by coaching parents in responsive adult–child interactions and providing books for young children. This synthesis of science and practical guidance is essential reading for researchers, administrators, and educators!
$34.95 | Stock #: 21206-52315 | 2019 | 264 pages | 6 x 9 | paperback | ISBN 978-1-68125-231-5
WATCH THE WEBINAR! Join Dr. Dickinson to discover the amazing role of language in supporting children’s emotional, social, intellectual and literacy development. VIEW THE RECORDING: http://bit.ly/DavidD-webinar
45 Strategies That Support Young Dual Language Learners
By Shauna L. Tominey, Ph.D., & Elisabeth C. O’Bryon, Ph.D.
The number of dual language learners in early childhood classrooms is expanding every year—and teachers often feel underprepared to bridge language barriers and effectively meet these students’ learning needs. Help is here in this urgently needed book, a toolbox of 45 practical, developmentally appropriate strategies for teaching dual language learners (both Spanish speakers and children who speak other languages).
DISCOVER HOW TO • Set up and organize your learning environment to support dual language learners • Create a diverse classroom community where children’s challenges and needs are anticipated • Use culturally responsive classroom management practices that engage diverse learners • Strengthen social-emotional learning for dual language learners • Promote early academic skills for children of all cultural backgrounds • Partner with families and engage them in children’s learning PRACTICAL MATERIALS: Classroom activities; chapter quizzes; reflection questions; Spanish songs, vocabulary, and books for the classroom; lists of additional resources; sample letters and forms (photocopiable and available online).
$36.95 | Stock #: 21206-50434 | 2018 | 224 pages | 8 ½ x 11 | paperback | ISBN 978-1-68125-043-4
