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Teasing about Speech Often Hurts
Feb 22, 2012
By Dr. Judy Montgomery, CCC-SLP, Professor, Chapman University
In this book, Jimmy talks about experiences related to a speech difficulty that are all too common in the early school years. He is just learning to be a “talker” like those more accomplished speakers around him, but his fine motor system is still immature and he […]
Continue Reading →Visualizing the Story
Feb 01, 2012
By the author, Jim Doti
In constructing a narrative arc that includes a beginning, middle and end in a children’s picture book of 32 pages, as I did for A Christmas Adventure in Little Italy, I like to work with an outline. Such an outline basically involves storyboarding the book.
Before doing that, I spend […]
Continue Reading →A Narrative Arc with a Message
Jan 17, 2012
By the author, Jim Doti
A Christmas Adventure in Little Italy (CALI) told a simple story: boy loses dog then finds dog. No message other than the love between a boy, his dog and his grandmother and how that love forms the basis for warm family traditions and values.
What brings CALI to life is […]
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