Playful, engaging talk with young children is much more than a social activity: it's the foundation of language, intellectual, and social-emotional development, and it's also the key to narrowing the achievement gap between children from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

This tape explores how the acquisition of language is influenced by the adults who interact with the child and by the society or culture in which the child lives. Language helps children to reason and think, to communicate feelings and needs, and to relate to others. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

In this video examines the development of language from babbling to complex sentences. It shows how parents and caregivers can create a language-rich environment that stimulates competency. Available on DVD

Las Etapas en el Desarrollo Communicativo de su Nino -- This wall poster serves as a useful and colorful checklist of the characteristics of normal communication development in children from birth to 36 months.

This videotape illustrates the milestones of normal communication development in the first three years of life. Available in VHS format only.

This video reviews the primary components of the communication development of the three-year-old. Available on VHS or DVD.

Developed for parents and early-childhood educators, this video demonstrates how to focus on and take advantage of the natural uses of language that go on all day, every day. Available in VHS format only.

This program documents the pleasure, comfort, and benefit of folk games and songs from African-American, Scots-Irish, Norwegian, Anglo-American, Greek, Italian, and Yiddish-Russian cultures. Includes: VHS

This video demonstrates developmentally appropriate practices for facilitating preschool children's construction of language. Available on DVD format.

Using vignettes filmed at a model children’s center, students are introduced to the vocabulary of language studies. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video provides the viewer with strategies that can be used to help children improve their communication skills during natural talking opportunities. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

The ECO program stresses adult-child interaction as the basis for a child learning social play, turn-taking, preverbial communication, language, and conversation. It also increases social interaction and language learning for children with a variety of special needs, including developmental disabilities, motor delays, behavioral disorders, and autistic-like characteristics. It has been clinically tested with infants at risk and older children with a variety of communication delays. Available in VHS format only.

ECO II is a video demonstration of adult communication styles that help children communicate. Available in DVD.

Learning to communicate with children involves more than being told or asked what to do. Available in DVD and VHS.

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When adults mimic children , they perform and speak in manners that a child can communicate, and these ways show a subsequent developmental step. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

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This video displays the responsiveness of children during interaction and communication. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This video reveals a mother using all five ECO strategies into an active language-learning conversation with a four-year-old boy with language-speech delays. Available in DVD.

A child learns language to the degree that he stays interacting with people. Available in DVD.

A research-based, developmental approach to promoting young children's social, language and literacy development within everyday activities and conversations in a variety of early childhood settings. This includes children who are at risk for language delays, who have language disorders and who are learning English as a second language.Includes: 2 VHS tapes / 1 book

This video demonstrates the use of interactive learning strategies with disabled children. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This videotape briefly outlines the development of communication skills in the first three years of life. The warning signs and possible causes of a delay in speech and language development are discussed. Available in VHS format only.

This video presents a unique approach for teaching adults to read to young hearing-impaired children. With both parents and professionals in mind, this tape was developed to help develop vocabulary, sign language fluency, and appreciation for both Signing Exact English and American Sign Language. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

This videotape illustrates the milestones of hearing development in the first three years of life. Available in VHS format only.

This video introduces Functional Learning, a fundamental aspect of an intensive therapeutic intervention program for children with developmental delays and their parents. This intervention approach has evolved in England from the work of two developmental therapists, Katrin Stroh and Thelma Robinson. Available in DVD and VHS formats.

Based on current research this set provides an intervention program for parents of preschool children who are language delayed.

This guidebook provides a common-sense approach that parents of young children with language delays can use in any and every situation to promote their child's communication and language development. This approach, the 3A Way, focuses on the caring connections that help children communicate and learn: Allow child to lead; Adapt to "share the moment"; Add language and experience. Languages: English, French and Spanish

This video is a tool for orienting both parents and professionals to the Hanen approach. The presents the personal account of two mothers of children with language delays. Available in VHS format only.

The five modules included on this tape provide examples of parents applying different aspects of the Hanen approach to interactions with their children who have language delays. Available in VHS format only.

This tape demonstrates how music can be one of the most successful ways to have fun with a child while encouraging conversations and language. The comments and observations of parents regarding techniques they use compliment the tape. Available in VHS format only.

The following four tapes illustrate how parents can encourage their child's communication development through everyday music, reading, art and play activities. Parents share their frustrations and successes as they apply the Hanen approach to each type of activity. Available in VHS format only.

This tape illustrates parent-child interaction during reading activities. Parents share strategies that enhance the activities such as reducing rate, pausing, simplifying language. Available in VHS format only.

Emphasizes communication and stimulation strategies utilized during art activities. Strategies such as labeling, expanding, and repeating are illustrated throughout the tape. Parents provide personal accounts of their experiences using art with their children. Available in VHS format only.

Provides examples of skill development during parent-child play activities both with and without toys. Play is shown as a rich source for every aspect of a child's development. Various stages of play are addressed. Available in VHS format only.

A resource to promote language learning through song. This cassette includes old favorites that are sung very slowly, making it easy for children (even those with language delays) to sing along. Includes: Cassette

Set includes: You Make the Difference In Helping Your Child Learn (90 pages); and You Make the Difference in Helping Your Child Learn: Teaching Tape (105 min.). Includes: 1 book / 1 video.

This guidebook is designed to help parents of all young children, especially those who are at-risk for developing a language delay. The principles of the Hanen approach are captured in this condensed, user-friendly book. Available Languages: Aboriginal-Native American, Chinese, English, French and Spanish.

The information covered in the parent guidebook (30530) is demonstrated in nine separate modules on the videotape. The modules show how parents can connect with their young children while fostering self-esteem and learning during the natural conversations of daily living. Available in VHS format only.

This illustrated guidebook provides a step-by-step approach to promoting social, language, and literacy development of young children in early childhood settings, including children at risk of delay. Outstanding resource for professionals responsible for creating learning environments for children. Available in English and French.

Learn how to create enriched, interactive language-learning environments during play and daily activities.

This book explores strategies to develop and support opportunities that help children initiate and maintain successful peer interaction.

Learn about the important links between oral language development and literacy.

This introductory video looks at life inside child-care settings where early childhood educators use the Hanen approach to promote interaction, language learning, and emergent literacy in young children.

This series is designed to help professionals in child care and preschool settings lay the foundation for children's future academic and social success using the Hanen approach found in the Learning Language and Loving It guidebook and videos. Includes: 3 Books

This four-part teaching tape provides a step-by-step approach to promoting the social, language and literacy development of young children, including those at risk of delay. Numerous examples are shown of teachers interacting with children in a variety of situations. Includes: 2 VHS, 1 Guidebook

This video emphasizes the importance of making use of the child's available senses, using familiar routines and turntaking games, and using systematic and direct instruction for encouraging communication. Available in VHS format only.

This video is for speech and language pathologists and educators, and it delivers methods that language facilitation strategies use in everyday situations. It also includes on-screen activities so parents can practice these strategies (interpret, turn questions into comments, expand your child's message). Includes: DVD with User's guide.

This videotape is a primer for learning sign language. It is designed to be both effective and fun. It presents in dictionary format 117 basic vocabulary words and ten phrases in sign language. Available in VHS format only.

Communicating Partners is an instructional guide presented in a newsletter format for parents and professionals concerned with how children learn to communicate and build relationships.

This video introduces a technique to help people with severe disabilities, including those who are Deaf/Blind, acquire communicative behavior through the sense of touch. Available on VHS or DVD.

This book is based on papers presented at the Fourth International Symposium on Childhood Deafness.