HandMade Marks

HandMade Marks shows parents how to develop attention, emotional connection and control, lively, invested speech and self-directed literacy in young children using scribbling and drawing. Hands-on exercises, developmental benchmarks, evaluation tools, and research questions are included to help parents encourage their children acquire speech and a love for and skill with reading and writing images as well as text. Autism and the influence of technology on early childhood development are two of the many fascinating and important topics discussed at the end of this book.