Let's Talk Today!™ Calendar
Description
Implement a practical home program resource to engage parents in their child’s language development.
Let’s Talk Today!™ is a practical resource SLPs can use to engage parents in their child’s language development or improvement. It is appropriate for children ages 3 to 7 who are achieving typical language milestones or for children struggling due to a speech and language impairment.
This product is a 12-month dateless calendar with over 400 fun and interactive activities to allow users multiple activity options. Simple explanations of proven language intervention techniques are incorporated. Featured activities build language skills needed for school success.
Let’s Talk Today!™ can be used as a:
- Home program to foster parent involvement in learning and speech-language intervention.
- Framework for explaining the impact of language disabilities on learning.
- Method for demonstrating proven intervention techniques.
- Tool to supplement instruction.
- Vehicle to stimulate collaboration.
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What's Included
Let's Talk Today!™ Calendar
- Sixteen 8.5 x 11" pages (4 Instructional Sheets & 12 Month Dateless Sheets)
- © 2022
Target Audience
Ages 3 to 7
Author
Jean Blosser, EdD, CCC-SLP, is passionate about creating systems in our schools that ensure therapists and educators provide high-quality, outcomes-based services for children with disabilities. To Jean, collaboration is essential! Jean is an entrepreneur, professor, innovator, author, teacher, researcher, and leader in school-based services. She has held leadership positions in schools, universities, professional organizations, and business. Throughout her career, she has mentored hundreds of aspiring school-based therapists, encouraging them to be innovative, to coach, and to collaborate with their education partners and families, to make services educationally relevant and meaningful to children so they can participate and succeed in their classrooms.
As President of Creative Strategies for Special Education, she provides consulting services nationally to K-12 schools, universities, health care agencies, state departments of education, and professional associations. She loves engaging in training activities, strategic planning, program design/development/management, strategies for mentoring new professionals, and innovative instruction and intervention services for children with learning and communication disabilities.
Much of her work has focused on developing a unique, systematic approach for planning and delivering collaborative therapy services and improving student outcomes. Jean’s publications include numerous books, chapters, articles, clinical products, and resources for related services professionals, teachers, and parents including School Programs in Speech-Language Pathology: Organization and Service Delivery; Outcomes Matter in School Service Delivery; Speech Remediation: A Parents’ Guide to Understanding and Helping; Let’s Talk Today! A Calendar of 365 Daily Activities For Teaching Language Skills At Home; and Integrating the Core Curriculum into Service Delivery. She has been named a Fellow of The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the American Council on Education, and The Ohio Speech and Hearing Association.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial — Jean Blosser is presenter of online CE courses offered by Northern Speech Services; receives royalties.
Financial — Jean Blosser is creator of the "Let’s Talk Today! A Calendar of 365 Daily Activities For Teaching Language Skills At Home"; receives royalties.
Financial — Jean Blosser is the President of Creative Strategies for Special Education; ownership interests.
Financial — Jean Blosser is the author of School Programs in Speech-Language Pathology: Organization and Service Delivery published by Plural Publishing; receives royalties.
Nonfinancial — Jean Blosser has no relevant nonfinancial disclosures.
Customer Reviews
"The calendar give a simplistic, but effective method to facilitate language acquisition and use in other settings outside of therapy. I like that parents can implement this program immediately." M.L.
"The calendar itself is amazing and has great activities for young learners." T.O.
"I liked the calendar of activities. I learned that parents can be empowered to facilitate speech and language development to ensure academic success." A.D.
"Quick daily practice for all entities involved in children's lives." L.K.
"The calendars are very helpful, and I found the tips even more helpful, especially for sharing with teachers." L.K.
"I am ALWAYS looking for ways to include parents and teachers in the therapy process. The calendar is a genius idea! It empowers parents and classroom teachers – creates a teamwork approach." M.S.
"The calendar and ideas on how to use it with classroom teachers was great! So helpful for my collaborative classrooms! Easy to follow!" B.W
"The calendar is a nice resource to use with parents who want to do at-home activities with their kids. I liked the structure and the fact that there were suggestions for the classroom as well as for parents." W.R.
"The calendar of activities will be extremely helpful for the Early Intervention model where we are to "coach" parents and not "treat" the child. It will also be helpful for those families with whom I work that want homework all the time, but also for those who say they're too busy." K.T.
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