Audience
Play to Talk is for parents, professionals, and caregivers of children who are learning language.
Play To Talk will help any child who is learning language. This approach has also been successful with hundreds of children with autism, Asperger syndrome, Down syndrome, apraxia, neurological concerns, and many other delays.
About the Authors
James MacDonald is Professor Emeritus in Speech and Language Pathology and Developmental Disabilities at Ohio State University. He currently directs the Communicating Partners Center in Columbus, OH and provides consultative services to parents and professionals all over the world. For more information, you can visit his website at www.jamesdmacdonald.org.
Pam Stoika is a developmental psychologist in Madison, WI, specializing in the areas of autism, sensory integration, and social-communicative delays. She has spent almost a decade training parents, professional, and paraprofessionals to be more developmentally effective partners with children. She is also the mother of a 16 year old son with autism.