Language Disorder

Do you know children who get upset when their routines change? They might also struggle to see the big picture, make friends, solve a problem in real time, and read nonverbal communication. Meltdowns, tantrums, and other challenging behaviors might be common. This audiobook was designed to teach you how making small shifts in your language and speaking style that will produce important results.

If you think your child is at risk for language difficulties, the last thing you want to do is wait around. But, it’s scary not to know how to approach such a delicate situation. And the truth is, your fear of the unknown can sometimes be worse than the situation itself. Luckily, the missing piece that will help you and your child overcome the challenges that a speech delay or disorder brings is closer than you think. Yasmin Akhtar, an SLT, is on a mission to help parents understand language development through the power of games.

Some can name the relationship that broke them. For others, there's just the pattern—the partners, friends, bosses you organized your life around, until you couldn't remember who you were when no one was telling you. If you've spent years as "the giver," "the one who never causes problems," and wondered why a life of being needed has left you so quietly erased—there's a name for what you might be carrying.

Trauma doesn't always look the way the movies show it. Sometimes it's the way your shoulders climb toward your ears when a door slams. A smell that drops you somewhere you swore you'd left behind. The exhaustion of staying alert in a room that's perfectly safe. The realization that you've been carrying something for years your body never agreed to put down.

You can't quite remember whole stretches of it. Or you remember it too clearly, in pieces that don't fit. You apologize when someone bumps into you. You read every face in a room before relaxing. You learned, somewhere along the way, that being small was safer than being seen — and you've never quite stopped being small. Childhood trauma doesn't always announce itself. Sometimes it's the household that wasn't safe, the parent who couldn't be trusted, the moment that split your life into a before and an after. Sometimes it's quieter. The love with conditions. The needs never met.

If you've ever tried to explain OCD to someone who doesn't have it, you know how lonely it can be. The intrusive thoughts that arrive uninvited. The compulsions you perform in private, sometimes for hours. The fear that your OCD is too weird, too stuck, too far gone to reach. It isn't.

Sadly, in this world, we will encounter people who will use the ‘Dark Arts’ and do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, and in some cases, use the dark arts in such a horrible way, that nobody with a sense of empathy could believe. That is exactly why you need to equip yourself with the education of how these people work, their motivations & most importantly how you can protect yourself and your loved ones from these mind games.

"An unabashedly smart and affecting portrait of the strains of a marriage." —Ayana Mathis, author of The Twelve Tribes of Hattie Meet Ivan and Prue: a married couple - both experts in language and communication - who nevertheless cannot seem to communicate with each other Ivan is a tightly...