Early Childhood Development Chart
Third Edition

Judith K. Voress and Nils A. Pearson

The Early Childhood Development Chart–Third Edition serves as a quick reference to major developmental milestones for children from birth through 5 years of age. The developmental areas displayed align with those cited in federal legislation: 

• Cognition
• Communication
• Social/Emotional Development
• Adaptive Behavior, and
• Physical Development.

Target Group: Birth through 5 years

38 x 26 inch wall poster

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Happily Ever After
Using Storybooks in Preschool Settings

Kate Bannister, Katy Preston and Julie Primozich

Happily Ever After introduces 17 creative storybook-based units to develop literacy and language skills for children ages 2-6. This curriculum is full of wonderful activities to stimulate learning in all areas and develop emergent literacy skills with special needs children.

Activities included are for:

- year-long language concepts and activities
- activities to use in every component of a young child’s day
- whole child focus with an emphasis on language development
- for use with children at varying developmental levels
- created by early childhood specialists

Titles include:

- There Was a Bold Lady Who Wanted a Star
- Silly Sally
- My Little Sister Ate One Hare
- Go Away, Big Green Monster!
- Barn Dance!
- I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie
- Gingerbread Baby
- Geraldine's Big Snow
- Bear Snores On
- The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear
- The Kissing Hand
- Pete's a Pizza
- The Napping House
- Five Little Monkeys Bake a Birthday Cake
- Fidgety Fish
- Grow Flower, Grow!
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar

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Making Connections
Support for Families of Newborns and Infants with Hearing Loss

Valerie Schuyler and Norene Broyles

Making Connections focuses on how family members and professionals can promote acquisition of age-appropriate listening and communication skills in infants during their first twelve months of life. It was written for parents and family members of infants, and for the professionals who work with these families.

As a result of newborn hearing screening, new populations of infants and their family members require new information and strategies. Previous publications did not fully address working specifically with families of infants. Essential relationships unique to infancy need to be understood, and their development promoted through strategies for planning and implementing effective sessions with families.

Making Connections provides parents and early intervention specialists with information, strategies, and techniques to help deaf or hard of hearing infants develop to their full potential. It also gives early intervention specialists a structure for supporting families as parents create opportunities for their infant to make connections throughout the day.

CD includes printable templates for included checklists and forms.

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Parent-Infant Communication
Fourth Edition

Valerie Schuyler and Jane Sowers

Family-centered curriculum of listening and communication skills development for children, birth to four years of age. Child learning objectives follow the sequences of auditory and language skills acquisition as they occur in typically developing children. Parent information and skills objectives guide parents in promoting their child's listening and language development.

Now includes Learning Objectives on CD! This new CD provides a quick, easy way to copy Auditory and Communication learning objectives and developmental landmarks into IFSP and IEP.

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For Families Guidebook
Second Edition

The Guidebook and DVD provide easy-to-understand descriptions and real-life video illustrations on topics related to young children with hearing loss.  They help families understand:

 - hearing and hearing loss 
 - tests and procedures used to evaluate hearing in young children 
 - amplification systems: hearing aids, cochlear implants and FM systems 
 - beginning hearing aid use and hearing aid maintenance 
 - how family members and care givers can promote the child's acquisition for listening skills 
 - how young children learn: the relatinship between development in motor, cognitive, social-emotional  and communication domains 
 - prelinguistic communication: how and why infants communicate before they use words 
 - helping your child understand and use symbolic language 
 - the importance of play and preliteracy 
 - emotions family members may experience related to their child with hearing loss 
 - resources for additional information and support 

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Good Morning Me
Fun repetitions your little one can't help but mimic!

Lisa Eberlein

This whimsical book incorporates speech exercises to encourage your child's verbal development by introducing initial vowel/consonant combinations through entertaining repetition. These basic speech exercises practiced by children with diagnosed speech delay are beneficial for any child developing speech.

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The Home Team

Colorado Home Intervention Program

When babies are diagnosed as deaf or hard-of-hearing, early intervention is imperative. This DVD shows how to establish trusting, caring relationships between early intervention specialists and families of infants and toddlers with a hearing loss. Best practices in this family-centered approach are demonstrated in actual home visits.

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The Art and Science of Home Visits

Colorado Home Intervention Program

This DVD Explores the strategies and specific skills necessary to support parents' learning and the deaf of hard-of-hearing child's development during home visits. It shows how to forge partnerships and promote family confidence.

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Language Partners
Building a Strong Foundation 

Colorado Home Intervention Program

Every interaction between parent and child teaches the child something new about the world around them and ways to communicate within it. Successful communication is the foundation of a child's language skills. For a child who is deaf or hard of hearing, learning is even more dependent on the environment. Creating a language-rich environment gives children the tools they need to think, communicate and learn. This video shows several families using a variety of communication approaches as they provide a language rich environment for their deaf or hard of hearing children. Effective strategies are demonstrated.

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A Is for Access
Creating Full and Effective Communication Access for Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing

Hands and Voices, Colorado Department of Education, Marion Downs Hearing Center, and the National Deaf Education Project

A Is for Access provides essential information about the critical role of communication in the development of children who are deaf or hard of hearing. You will learn about the attributes of full effective communication, and how to create that environment for the diversely communicating student population. All common communication modalities are equitably represented.

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