Bailey Speaks! Book One: Sounds and Gestures

by Mary Mayo Balfour Calvert, Sharon Lockwood (Illustrator)

Overview

Bailey Speaks! is a children's book series that educates parents, teachers, and therapists on ways to expand a young child's communication at home or school. Children will love hearing about Bailey and her adventures while the reader will learn delightful and engaging ways to stimulate speech and language skills. Book One: Sounds and Gestures focuses on early language development through imitation, repetition, and play! Author Mary Mayo Balfour Calvert, MA, and illustrator Sharon Lockwood, PhD, are professionally published speech language pathologists with more than 100 years of combined experience - the perfect team to bring this enjoyable, educational story to life! Join David on his magical quest to teach his dog, Bailey, how to speak!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781087882116
Publisher:	Bailey Speaks 1 LLC
Publication date:	06/13/2022
Series:	Bailey Speaks! , #1
Edition description:	Large Type
Pages:	30
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.08(d)
Age Range:	Up to 5 Years

About the Author

Mary is a pediatric speech therapist with a B.A. in Elementary Education who has owned her private practice since 1988. Prior to private practice, she worked at Children's National Medical Center, Hearing and Speech Center, Washington, DC. While at CNMC, she provided evaluation and therapy and was the coordinator of speech therapy for the CNMC school and a consultant in the Learning Disabilities Clinic. Mary's extensive experience also includes classroom teaching for children with severe language delays ranging in age from preschool to high school with Los Angeles County Schools. She has devoted her life to balancing the raising of her two sons with her passion for helping children who have speech and language delays.

Dr. Lockwood's speech language career has spanned over fifty years. She was on the clinical staff and Director of Speech Language Services at Children's National Medical Center, Washington, DC, followed by twenty years in her pediatric private practice. Now retired, her passion for art has led to illustrating the delightful and important concepts in Bailey Speaks!

Editorial Reviews

"There are powerful lessons to be found in this charming book. Parents and caregivers concerned with fostering a young child's speech and language development would do well to spend a moment with Bailey." - Michael Jasnow, PhD, clinical psychologist

"Hats off to Mary Calvert and Sharon Lockwood for creating an engaging and important book. As a pediatrician, parents ask me every day what they can do to help their children thrive. Although I talk about diet, safety and development at every visit, it never dawned on me to focus in a proactive way on a child's speech and language development. The information presented in this book will not only nurture young minds, but the educational strategies printed throughout the book will also teach parents the specifics of how they are helping their children along the way. I plan to have copies of Bailey Speaks! in my waiting room." - Howard J. Bennett, MD, author of The Fantastic Body: What Makes You Tick and How You Get Sick

"Bailey Speaks! Is a fun, clever, storybook that 'barks' with a purpose to young readers, parents, and teachers. Bailey is just the right companion for the child who needs a book who 'speaks' to them. I think the book is purposeful and clever -- and fun. It will find its way into the hands of a child, parent, therapist, and teacher who will find it both useful and graceful." - Jack Gantos, 2012 Newbery Medal winner, author of Rotten Ralph and other children's stories

"I have never seen anything like Calvert and Lockwood's wonderful new book, Bailey Speaks! I am a Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician who appreciates the importance of stimulating language development in all children. This book is a gem. It is fun to read. The beautiful illustrations will bring a smile to your face. Through this charming story of a boy and a dog, the author teaches parents, teachers, and children about normal speech development. Key lessons are both implied in the story and made explicit in regularly recurring dog bone embedded messages. I will be enthusiastically recommending Bailey Speaks! to all parents and professionals. Can't wait to see the next book in this promising series!" - Daniel G. Shapiro, MD

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