Resources
Chatty Child™ provides seasonal suggestions for you to incorporate into your daily life to improve speech and language development in your child.
SmartPhone & Tablet App Suggestions
For Speech and Language Development, we like:
- Monkey Preschool LunchBox
- Monkey Math School Sunshine
- Monkey Word School Adventure
- Monkey Preschool: When I Grow Up
- Teach Me: Toddler
- Teach Me: Kinergarten
- Sounding Board: a great app for children that have limited speech and teaches children to communicate through use of pictures and desired photos.
- Boardmaker Bingo: uses the boardmaker symbols in a simple matching game
We welcome play and learning suggestions from parents and caregivers – please send them along by email.
Happy learning!
Books for Parents
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Raising Kids on the Spectrum: 101 Inspirational Stories for Parents of Children with Autism and Asperger’s by Rebecca Dr. Landa , Mary Beth Marsden , Nancy Burrows , Amy Newmark
Thinking In Pictures: and Other Reports from My Life with Autism by Temple Grandin (for sale on Amazon.com)
The Way I See It, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition: A Personal Look at Autism and Asperger’s by Temple Grandin (for sale on Amazon.com)
For more on Temple Grandin, see an interview segment that aired on CBS 60 Minutes with Leslie Stahl:
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Temple Grandin: Understanding Autism “I always wanted to meet Temple Grandin,” Lesley Stahl says. “She’s one of those rare people with autism who can explain autism. She’s a sort of interpreter of autism for the rest of us.”
Meditation and Wellbeing Links
- The Path – Heather is a certified as a ‘Meditation Teacher Training in Mindfulness and Compassion’
- Every Kid’s Yoga
- Reiki Healing Association – Heather is a level 2 reiki healer since 2003 by the Usui Reiki Lineage.
Important Links
- American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA)
- New York City Department of Health & Mental Hygiene/ Early Intervention
- New York State Department of Education and Related Services
- New York State Department of Health Early Intervention
- New York State Speech Language Hearing Association Inc.
- The PROMPT Institute
- The Sarah Jane Brain Project
- Diffuse Axonal Injury Information from BrainandSpinalCord.org
- American Occupational Therapy Association
- Cerebral Palsy Guide
- Cerebral Palsy Group
- Cerebral Palsy Guidance
- The CP Lawyer
- Birth Injury Center
- FeelHarmonic (non-profit)
- Autism Speaks Resource Guide
- Communicating with an Autistic Child: A Parent’s Guide
- National Special Education Advocacy Institute
- AutismNOW Transition Planning
- Sesame Street’s #SeeAmazing in All Children
- CHADD – The National Resource on ADHD
- Neurodivergent Spoon Theory
- The Zones of Regulation
- Beckman Oral Motor
- DIR Floortime
- SOS Approach to Feeding
- Reading Rockets: Launching Young Readers
- Autism Society
