Recent Publications from Brookes Publishing Co. www.brookespublishing.com
	Early Literacy in Action: The Language-Focused Curriculum for Preschool By Betty H. Bunce, Ph.D., CCC-SLP Enhance young children's language skills with this proven play-focused preschool curriculum—drawn from more than 20 years of field testing and outcomes! This highly adaptable, flexible program is a practical and significantly expanded follow-up to the bestselling Building a Language Focused Curriculum for the Preschool Classroom. Teachers will get a year's worth of lessons—40 weeks of curriculum plans, including weekly themes, dramatic play activities, art, suggested story and song selections, and group lesson plans laid out in a week-by-week format. Detailed information on themes, lesson plans, and teaching strategies allow this program to be effectively implemented by educators at any experience level.
	Building Language Throughout the Year: The Preschool Early Literacy Curriculum By John Lybolt, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, Jennifer Armstrong, M.A., CCC-SLP, Kristin Evans Techmanski, M.A., CCC-SLP, & Catherine Gottfred, Ph.D., CCC-SLP For children from low-resource backgrounds, a literacy-rich preschool experience with a skilled and engaged teacher can make all the difference. Now schools can ensure effective early literacy instruction with this field-tested, research-based curriculum for children 3 to 5 years of age. These 41 one-week lessons—each built around a theme with associated vocabulary lists and fun activities—are just what teachers need to enhance children’s phonemic awareness and vocabulary development throughout the year. For each of the one-week lessons, teachers will get everything they need: a general lesson plan for the entire week, an overview of language concepts and goals, and detailed lesson plans for each weekday. “From-the-trenches” vignettes share other teachers’ success stories, and the useful observation forms help teachers track the growth and variety of children’s vocabulary and prove that students are making progress.
	Road to Reading: A Program for Preventing and Remediating Reading Difficulties By Benita A. Blachman, Ph.D., & Darlene M. Tangel, Ph.D. This innovative literacy program for students in grades 1–3 is committed to helping all children develop accuracy and fluency in decoding. Ideal for students who can demonstrate beginning levels of phonemic awareness and who know some letter names and sounds, Road to Reading targets the next crucial skills, including word identification, oral reading, and dictation. The program can also be adapted for older struggling readers. The easy-to-follow teacher's guide facilitates lesson planning for six levels of instruction that increase in complexity as students progress. An accompanying CD-ROM provides more than 200 pages of supplementary materials, including word cards, sound packs and assessment and lesson plan forms—everything needed to implement the program.
	Sounds Like Fun: Activities for Developing Phonological Awareness, Revised Edition By Cecile Cyrul Spector, Ph.D. Q: How do fireflies start a race? A: Ready, set, glow! Kids love jokes—and teachers and SLPs love fast and easy ways to improve students' phonological awareness. That's why every elementary and middle-school SLP and educator needs this playful, effective activity book, packed with jokes and riddles that increase students' awareness of the phonemes that make up words. Complete with clear instructions and helpful appendices of consonant and vowel sounds, this activity book is a simple, cost-effective, and reliable way to make learning key literacy skills fun for the whole class. A must for the "teaching toolbox" of every special educator, general educator, and speech pathologist!
	Reading Research in Action: A Teacher's Guide for Student Success By Peggy McCardle, Ph.D., MPH, Vinita Chhabra, Ph.D., & Barbara Kapinus, Ph.D. Teachers asked for it: a practical, no-nonsense book that shows them how to use scientifically based reading research (SBRR) in their everyday classroom instruction and improve their students' literacy outcomes. Now the SBRR guide every reading teacher wants is here— straight from the experts behind the bestselling Voice of Evidence in Reading Research. Inspired by questions from real teachers, the authors give K–8 educators clear and immediately useful answers about reading research and what it says about the elements of effective instruction. Answers to these critical questions come complete with simple, straightforward explanations of research and brief, applicable vignettes that demonstrate how to work research-based practices into classroom reading instruction. A user-friendly guide that's truly responsive to teachers' needs, this must-have book will help educators see all the benefits of instruction based on research—and use it skillfully to make all their students better readers.
	Autism Spectrum Disorders and AAC Edited by Pat Mirenda, Ph.D., & Teresa Iacono, Ph.D. Pat Mirenda—a leading authority on AAC and autism—and Teresa Iacono partner with more than 30 other experts to give readers the most current, in-depth information on a wide range of AAC methods and technologies. Through clear and compelling examinations of the latest research studies, professionals supporting people with autism will discover how these evidence-based AAC interventions can be used to promote children's natural speech and language development, expand literacy skills, modify challenging behavior, build young children's social interaction skills, encourage students' full membership and participation in inclusive classrooms, give children socially appropriate ways to express needs and preferences, and more. Readers will also get clarification of the common characteristics of effective AAC interventions and insight into the future research required to make AAC technologies more meaningful and motivating.
	Real Life, Real Progress for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Strategies for Successful Generalization in Natural Environments Edited by Christina Whalen, Ph.D., BCBA Generalization is the key to effective autism intervention—when children can apply new skills across settings, they'll make broad, long-term improvements in behavior and social communication. The first how-to guide to generalization is finally here! Practical and reader-friendly, this is the book that helps professionals take today's most popular autism interventions to the next level by making generalization an integral part of them. Case studies and vivid examples bring the strategies to life in every chapter, and forms and checklists help professionals plan interventions, track children's goals, and monitor their progress toward generalization. With this urgently needed guide to one of the most important facets of autism intervention, readers will help children generalize social behaviors and communication skills—and ensure better lives and brighter futures. Make generalization strategies a part of these popular interventions: Pivotal Response Training, Discrete Trial Instruction, Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS), Social Stories™, Computer-Assisted Intervention, and JumpStart Learning-to-Learn.
	One Child, Two Languages: A Guide for Early Childhood Educators of Children Learning English as a Second Language, Second Edition By Patton O. Tabors, Ed.D. In the section edition of the bestselling guide to early childhood second language acquisition, leading researcher Patton Tabors equips teachers with new and expanded content. Teachers will learn how to apply cutting-edge research to their everyday teaching practices, address NAEYC's recommendations for responding to linguistic and cultural diversity, use appropriate assessment techniques for children's first and second language, understand and attend to the particular needs of internationally adopted children, and conduct thought-provoking professional discussions with the book-club–ready study guide and materials. NEW!  One Child, Two Languages in Action: A Professional Development DVD Educating & Assessing Young Second-Language Learners By Patton O. Tabors, Ed.D., with Mariela M. Páez, Ed.D., & Cornelia Heise-Baigorria, Ed.D. Get vivid demonstrations of suggested strategies from "One Child, Two Languages," in this highly informative presentation by Dr. Patton Tabors and fellow language development experts.
	Educating the Other America: Top Experts Tackle Poverty, Literacy, and Achievement in Our Schools Edited by Susan B. Neuman, Ed.D. This trailblazing book brings together 30 of the biggest names in education to tackle the toughest challenges faced by the nearly 1 in 5 children who live below the poverty line—and offer cutting-edge ideas for breaking the cycle of poverty and closing the achievement gap by improving education and literacy.
	Speech & Language Development & Intervention in Down Syndrome & Fragile X Syndrome By Joanne E. Roberts, Ph.D., Robin S. Chapman, Ph.D., & Steven F. Warren, Ph.D. Spotlighting two highly prevalent genetically caused disabilities—Down syndrome and Fragile X syndrome—this cutting-edge text clarifies the distinct speech and language issues associated with each disorder and helps readers conduct individualized assessment and intervention.
	The Handbook for Evidence-Based Practice in Communication Disorders By Christine A. Dollaghan, Ph.D. With this landmark textbook, speech-language pathologists will learn to apply current best evidence as they make critical decisions about the care of each individual they serve. The first text that covers this cutting-edge topic for the communication disorders field, this book introduces SLPs and audiologists to the principles and process of evidence-based practice, thoroughly covering its three primary components: “external” evidence from systematic research, “internal” evidence from clinical practice, and evidence concerning patient preferences.
	The MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventories (CDIs) User's Guide and Technical Manual, Second Edition By Larry Fenson, Ph.D., Virginia A. Marchman, Ph.D., Donna Thal, Ph.D., Philip S. Dale, Ph.D., Elizabeth Bates, Ph.D., & J. Steven Reznick, Ph.D. The MacArthur-Bates CDIs are even easier to administer and score with this updated and revised manual. This second edition gives users a wealth of new and expanded information, including more demographically balanced normative data, more detailed directions on administering and scoring the CDIs, specific guidelines for using the normative tables, updates on research and clinical findings, and an overview of the short forms of the CDIs. The CDIs include: A Words and Gestures form (ages 8-18 months), a Words and Sentences form (16-30 months), the MacArthur-Bates Communicative Development Inventory-III (CDI-III), and the User’s Guide and Technical Manual, Second Edition.