Educational Titles
The Art of Talking With Children
Adding the joy and fun of great conversations into your everyday lives
Science has shown that the best way to help our kids become independent, kind, and happy is by talking with them. And yet we often find ourselves distracted, exhausted, or at a loss as to how to have meaningful conversations.
Harvard lecturer, speech pathologist, and mother, Rebecca Rolland offers an essential, evidence-based guide to communicating more effectively with children of all ages, revealing that a great conversation has a double benefit: helping adults and kids connect better in the moment and boosting children’s learning and wellbeing for years to come.
Dr. Rolland’s tools for communication will help you learn to:
- Engage in more “rich talk”—a methodology for a quality conversation;
- Promote your child’s empathy, curiosity, and ability to embrace challenges;
- Make you feel more effective and confident as a parent.
Foreign rights have been sold to multiple territories, with translations to Spanish, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, among others.
Rich Talk with Young Children
A professional’s guide—from the author of the popular parent book The Art of Talking With Children!
Every early childhood professional knows how important it is to talk with young children. Now there’s a practical guide to taking talk to the next level—through rich, intentional conversations that nurture all aspects of child development. Engaging, conversational, and grounded in the latest research, this book highlights the transformative power of rich talk with children ages 2–8 and gives you clear, actionable guidance to bring its benefits to any learning environment. You’ll learn how to apply Rebecca Rolland’s popular Rich Talk model through ready-to-use strategies, authentic examples, real-world scenarios, and more than 20 downloadable exercises and planning tools.
A must-have for pre- and in-service educators, SLPs, and other professionals, this book is your complete action plan for fostering young children’s learning and development through meaningful, high-quality conversation.
