What to Do When Your Child Isn’t Talking Expert Strategies to Help Your Baby or Toddler Talk, Overcome Speech Delay, and Build Language Skills for Life

by Lathey, Nicola; Blake, Tracey

• ISBN13: 9781615199624
• ISBN10: 1615199624
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781615199631
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-04-25
• Publisher: The Experiment
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Summary

Help your little one overcome childhood speech delay—with expert guidance and simple strategies you can use at home!

For parents of young children, speech milestones are monumental—from baby babble to first words to full sentences. It’s natural to worry when they don’t arrive “on schedule” or when your little one seems to lag behind their peers.

In What to Do When Your Child Isn’t Talking, speech and language therapist Nicola Lathey and journalist Tracey Blake offer parents much-needed reassurance and solutions—at a moment when speech delay and regression is more common than ever. Organized by major milestones from birth to age four, this don’t-panic guide will empower you to:

• Identify early signs of speech delay and possible causes— “glue ear,” tongue tie, suspected autism, or simply your child’s individual pace of learning.
• Help your child practice specific speech sounds and words that they find tricky with fun activities, from classic clapping games to filling a “story sack.”
• Get to the root of toddler tantrums, chronic shyness, unclear speech, stuttering, social anxiety, and other issues stunting your child’s self-expression.
• Communicate better with your child, and watch them thrive!

Publisher’s note: What to Do When Your Child Isn’t Talking is an updated and revised edition of Small Talk.

Author Biography

Nicola Lathey is a pediatric speech and language therapist specializing in children under five. Nicola has worked all over the world, including England, Australia, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. She is the founder of the Owl Centre, a private speech and language therapy clinic for children in Oxfordshire, England. She lives in Oxford, England with her husband and daughter.

Tracey Blake is a journalist and editor at the Daily Mail, where she writes the parenting blog Small Talk. She lives in Buckinghamshire, England, with her partner and their two children.
 

Table of Contents

Introduction: How this book can help your child talk
 
Chapter 1: How to recognize a problem with your child’s speech
 
Chapter 2: What to do when . . . your baby isn’t babbling
(0 – 12 months)
 
Chapter 3: What to do when . . . your baby isn’t saying any first words
(12 – 18 months)
 
Chapter 4: What to do when . . . your toddler can’t put two words together
(18 – 24 months)
 
Chapter 5: What to do when . . . your toddler’s language is way behind their friends
(24 – 36 months)
 
Chapter 6: Other common concerns
 
Appendix
Glossary
Support Groups and Charities
Recommended Reading
Resources
Endnotes
Index