Let me speak

Plot

The learning games in this book, designed to be played by parents with their children, represent one of the most exciting modern advances in the techniques of teaching the handicapped. They have been first used by the authors in the Parental Involvement Project of the Hester Adrian Research Centre at the University of Manchester.

LET ME SPEAK is a complete teaching programme for parents - or those whi have mothering charge - of any children who are slow in acquiring language. It is also invaluable source of inspiration and ideas to teachers and therapists professionally involved with such children. Written clearly and simply, it shows how assess a child's stage of language development, and how to teach the skills necessary to reaching the next stage. All aspects of language development are covered,from the early stages even before the child begins to talk, right up to the use of language in thinking. And exercises have all been worked out as games that can be played within the family.
Children who are slow in speaking are very often held up in every stage of their development afterwards. Yet Dorothy Jeffry and Roy McConkey believe that such children can be thaught the skills they lack .