The Teaching of Talking: Learn to Do Expert Speech Therapy at Home with Children and Adults Kindle Edition

This is not what I thought it would be. This is probably perfect for someone (or a caregiver) suffering with speaking relating problems after an injury or stroke, and my heart goes out to these families. I thought this would be helpful as a guide to different speech improvement problems for more everyday use, and it is not that type of a book (e.g., speech rate, enunciation, etc). I am glad this book helped so many others, based on the reviews. One good thing the book does is emphasize the importance of patience, positive encouragement, and small victories.

I wish I had read this book over 2 yrs ago when our daughter came home after a stroke and a 2 month coma.....she's had almost three years of traditional speech therapy, but as this book explains the magic happens at home with loved ones seven days a week. The book has so many tips from the very beginning of the process to progressively improving one's speech and understanding by drawing the subject out and helping them want and feel able to communicate with the outside world.....it ALL happens in everyday life with parents and loved ones....not an hour a week in "speech therapy" doing excercises from third grade workbooks (sorry therapists, you do help too but you can't achieve much in an hour or two a week.....we still love you!).

Overall very good book. However not what I needed. It is not for non verbal kids but you don’t see that until after you read the first part of the book.

I choose the rating because it answered my question. My son's girlfriend had a major stroke. She's having difficulty with speech can't finish a sentence. She gets frustrated but she keeps trying. I wanted to find a way to help her more. I would recommend this book to anyone very good information.

If you are a caregiver of a PWA (Person With Aphasia) who has moderate to severe aphasia, this book should be extremely helpful if you want to maximize their progress. Ittleman indicates if a PWA can imitate even single words and understands what you are saying, his method should be effective. This is true even if a person also has apraxia, though profound apraxia will probably first require other methods. Although a chapter is devoted to working on mild aphasia, and it's a good chapter, the rest of the book is more appropriate for more significant aphasia issues.What I've Gotten Out of this Book:1. Stimulate speech whenever you are together during the day. (My own Caveat: amount and timing need to be finessed so it's enough but not too much for you both.)2. Relax. Have fun. Use humor.3. If your PWA is willing to work, they'll improve.4. Be conscious of what you're stimulating for in terms of lengths of sentences.5. Be aware of the need to slow down and enunciate slowly, especially words with more syllables.6. Start easy. Work step by step for success at each step before making things more difficult.7. Learn what mistakes to ignore.8. Give your PWA positive feedback. If there are errors, rather than draw attention to them, suggest they try again.This book is all practical. It's written so anyone should be able to understand. There is really no theory to get bogged down with. There are a lot of examples that anyone should be able to relate to. In addition, you're encouraged to work with relevant content, and especially in the beginning, words, phrases, or sentences that refer to your immediate environment.If you are working with a therapist, hopefully, they've read this book and can help you put it into practice. If you aren't working with a therapist, you should probably be able to do much of what is suggested simply by reading the book. If this seems too much of a challenge, Ittleman's website, should be helpful including his videos. And he's also willing to either consult on-line with you or even answer your emailed queries. He's dedicated to spreading the work of how to do successful work on aphasia in your own home.I wish this book had been available three years ago when my husband had his stroke and could hardly say anything. He has had lots of speech therapy, including an intensive program, and all have been helpful. But Ittleman's methods have truly seemed to make the most difference. We have chosen to also do some consulting time with him. For us, this works well, and his charges are reasonable, especially given the time and effort he puts into lesson planning, notes to you, and answers to emails. But for those of you who do well with applying material straight from a book, the book, with perhaps some emailed inquiries and looking at his site, should be enormously helpful.Finally, this book doesn't address reading and writing issues. It focuses entirely on speech. If your PWA is like my husband and having difficulties with all three, it's probably better for quality of life for both of you to focus on speech. I guess exceptions would be if they seem to have more potential or interest in writing or reading than in speaking.

I think it is a great book, but I think the description should be more clear, that is for helping someone who really can't talk at all, or maybe can say one word at a time, and sometimes have trouble saying that one word. It would be great for someone who has trouble asking for things that they need. My husband had a brain injury and doesn't talk as much as he used to but there was not really anything in this book that was helpful for us.

I don't believe this book will make anyone an expert speech therapist, but it does offer useful insights and ideas. Although it is written primarily to assist someone in "relearning" to speak or talk again, it would also be a useful adjunct for ESL teachers and/or literacy tutors.

got this for a friend who had a stroke told him to take to his therapist for evaluation but the more help the better and is an augmentation to work at home with

Bought for someone with stroke condition. Very useful.

Do you want to help someone with aphasia? This is the book for you! An experienced speech therapist who knows what a difference fun, working together and constant friendly reinforcement from the people who love someone with aphasia can make, Mark Ittleman is a real enthusiast. This book shows you clearly what to do. If you want to know more before you buy go to teachingoftalking.com where you can really find out what it is all about.

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This is a good book for people with medical conditions but less good for help to correct foreign accents to speak better English.

Excellent advice from a pro!