This strip book, 153 x 444 mm, with each individual card 148 mm sq., wire bound side-by-side in threes, is a flexible way of presenting future, present and past tenses.  Printed in full colour, laminated on both sides and wire-bound, it includes 20 different verbs illustrated in a series of original photographs.  Half of the verbs are regular and the remaining half irregular and there is an equal split between verbs in the singular and plural forms.  Some of the content includes: Drying, Cooking, Drawing, Playing, Painting, Eating, Reading, Writing, Washing and Brushing.

€55.95 & VAT (VAT @ 21% must be added to price)   

(3-step sequencing) 48 cards demonstrating simple sequentially-related actions to help establish rudimentary concepts as well as helping to develop the appropriate language.  The contents include: Shaving, Writing, Sewing, Telephoning, Eating, Reading, Wrapping, Drinking, Painting, Peeling, Opening, Making, Playing, Sliding, Cleaning and Washing.

€41.95 & VAT (VAT @ 21% must be added to price)

(8 step sequencing)  Six sequencing stories introduce time concepts and provide excellent opportunities for more advanced language work on meaning, grammar and vocabulary.  The cards include Camping holiday, Picnic, Party, Journey, The working day, A baby joins the family. 

€41.95 & VAT (VAT @ 21% must be added to price)

These beautifully produced cards, 210 x 148 mm, presented in a storage box with notes for guidance included in each set, are an invaluable asset when teaching language skills. The series includes:

Animals and Birds: 96 large format, full colour cards offering many opportunities for naming, identifying and interaction.  These are divided into 6 categories which include the following cards: Wild land animals (gorilla,  leopard, mouse): Domestic animals (cat, donkey, pig); Insects/minibeasts (bees, moth, spider); Reptiles and amphibians (alligator, frog, turtle); Marine life (crab, goldfish, shark); Birds (flamingos, owl, pheasant).

Food: 96 large format, full colour cards photographed against a non-distracting background, these cards do not rely on brand names and packaging to identify everyday objects such as salt, sugar and butter.  The cards are divided into 6 categories: Fruit (avocado, cherries,orange, raspberries etc.); Vegetables (asparagus, cabbage, mushrooms, sweet potato etc; (Basics (bread, fish, pasta,rice etc.); Prepared food (baby meal, Chinese meal, egg and bacon, curry etc); Drinks (milk, orange, tea,wine etc.); Snacks (beefburger, chocolate, sandwich, yoghurt etc.)

Home: 96 large format, full colour cards from six rooms of a home provide a wide spread of language.  This set offers many opportunities for classifying, naming and life skills as well as much wider communication needs.  Amongst the cards featured in this series are:Lounge (armchair, table, stereo, TV); Diner (plate, tray, tumblers, vase); Kitchen (cooker, dustpan and brush, jug, wooden spoons); Bedroom (chest of drawers, cot, wardrobe);Bathroom (bath, toilet, sink); Study (clock, computer, stapler,telephone).

Occupations: 96 large format, full colour cards,  each photographed on location, opening up a wealth of language possibilities.  Arranged into 6 categories, some of the cards featured are: Arts and Craft (artist, bee keeper, potter, thatcher); Trades (plumber, bricklayer, roofer, lumberjack); Public Services (fire fighter, librarian, refuse collector); Health workers (doctor, speech and language therapist, physiotherapist); Transport (air crew, train driver, bus driver, seaman); General (chef, florist, newscasters).

Sport & Leisure:: 96 large format, full colour cards guaranteed to claim attention and raise interest.  These cards are sorted into 6 categories and include:Adventure sports (rock climbing, canoeing, potholing, rallying); Team sports (soccer, hockey, baseball,American football); Individual sports (cycle racing, tennis, archery, judo); Hobbies (stamp collecting, photography, vintage cars); Pastimes (chess, aerobics, music, computers); Entertainment (television, artgallery, park).

Transport & Vehicles: 96 large format, full colour cards which can be used for a wide variety of language-associated tasks.  Divided into 6 categories, the cards include: Air (airship, seaplane, glider, jet); Water (canoes, car ferry, trawler, yacht); Rail (diesel locomotive, freight train, subway trains, monorail); Personal (caravan, horse and cart, sports car, sled): Cycles (tricycle, tandem, racing bike, mountain bike); Service/work (ambulance, coach, oil tanker, taxis).

€57.95 & VAT each (VAT @ 21% must be added to price)

These beautifully produced cards, 210 x 148 mm, presented in a storage box with notes for guidance included in each set, are an invaluable asset when teaching language skills. The series includes:

Adjectives: 48 large format full-colour cards, each showing a specific adjective in context and covering the following concepts: Long/short; Wet/Dry; Open/closed; Full/Empty; Big/Little; Clean/Dirty; Hot/Cold; Old/New; Happy/Sad; Heavy/light; Broken and Colours.  Always realistic and sometimes challenging, many of these cards are also humorous or puzzling.

Everyday Objects: 48 large format, full-colour cards with 8 pictures in each of the following categories: Food, Toys, Household objects, Personal, Clothes and Furniture/electrical.

Prepositions:  48 large format, full-colour cards illustrating the main prepositions essential to the teaching of basic language. 8 prepositions have been photographed 6 times in different contexts and include the following concepts: In, On, Under, Over, Behind, In front of, Through, Next to, Between. The concepts and vocabulary shown relate to common experiences, such as a cat on a lap and a boy jumping over a rope.  Others introduce humour, such as a bear queuing at a bus stop. (VAT @ 21% must be added to price)

Basic Verbs:  48 large format full-colour cards, arranged in 8 categories which show instantly recognisable actions. They also offer plenty of opportunity for developing pronouns and will help extend both language and communication skills.  The contents include: Brush, Cut, Knit, Break, Carry, Point, Drink, Sleep, Talk, Clap, Crawl, Ride, Walk and many more.

What’s Different: 48 large format, full-colour cards arranged in 24 pairs with 3 differences between each pair of cards.  The differences include removal of objects, substitution of items, changes in colour, size and position as well as altered facial expressions.  The pictures include a clown, a boy on a sledge, a guitar player, in the nursery, seated at a table, a picnic and dressing up.

What’s Wrong: 48 large format, full-colour cards include mistakes with clothing, items in the wrong place, taking the incorrect approach, using the wrong object.  Included in this pack are both adults and children in an unlikely variety of situations such as Backwards on a bicycle, Muddy footprints and Going to work without trousers.

€43.95 & VAT each (VAT @ 21% must be added to price)

This book which is designed primarily to stimulate language in children whose language is delayed but who are otherwise developing normally, children who are developing language in a normal pattern but are delayed in their rate of acquisition, contains a wealth of practical ideas and activities for developing specific language skills.  Contents include: Early Language Skills; Attention Control and Listening Skills; The Role of Play; The Development of Comprehension; The Acquisition of Expressive Language; Perception.

€37.95

This book contains original stories and higher order thinking skills questions written specifically for the Visualising and Verbalising Programme.  The stories are approximately graded from kindergarten to about 13/14 years old with ten short paragraphs and two multiple paragraphs at each level.

€30.95

One of the causes of reading comprehension problems is a neuropsychological problem in creating imaged gestalts to connect to and interpret language.  A significant number of students only grasp or connect to “parts” of the language they read or the language they hear.  They must read and reread material many times.  They may recall a few details but cannot generalise and create a “whole” from incoming language.  This inability to process a whole stems from a corollary inability to form imaged gestalts.  Without the gestalt from which to process, they are unable to interpret and reason with language.  This is called concept imagery dysfunction.  Many students have this language comprehension disorder and are frequently diagnosed as “not motivated”.  They may have: weak reading comprehension - they have to read and reread material several times and still frequently remember only a few details rather than the “whole”.  Higher order comprehension skills such as main idea, inference, conclusions are not possible: weak oral comprehension – they connect only to part of a conversation and have difficulty responding relevantly and thinking logically.  They may ask and re-ask the same question and are labelled as “poor listeners”: weak oral language expression - they may be shy and have difficulty organising their verbalisation or they may be talkative but scattered, relating information out of sequence: weak written language expression – their writing is not organised and specific.  They don’t respond to the main idea of the question or the topic; weak sense of humour; weakness in following directions; difficulty with “cause and effect”.  The Visualising/ Verbalising programme successfully develops concept imagery and language comprehension.  The specific steps are: picture to picture; word imagery; sentence by sentence imagery - including a “picture summary” and a “word summary”; paragraph imaging; page imaging; chapter interpretation. This book, Visualising and Verbalising, identifies the important sensory connection that imagery provides and teaches specific techniques.  Specific steps and sample dialogue are presented.  Summary pages after each step make it easy to implement the programme in the classroom.

€77.95

A Visualised/ Verbalised Vocabulary Book, Level 1 or 2; aimed at developing vocabulary through imagery.  Each word in this book has a definition and high imagery sentences for the individual to visualise, the student then verbalises his/her own sentence and, if possible, writes it down.  The book also includes “vignettes”, which, besides adding humour and fun to the task of learning, allow the student to experience the words in context.

€38.95

(Age 4 to 10 years) Students are lead through 75 black and white stimulus drawings and a hierarchy of guided questions about each illustrated situation.  The pictures represent everyday experiences and are divided into 3 sections: Section 1 pictures show a problem and a solution; Section 2 pictures show a problem but no solution; Section 3 pictures show no problem - you present the possible problem.  Questions for each picture are divided into 4 categories – inferential reasoning, problem solving, determining causality and generalising.  Under these basic categories are 13 task areas such as Explaining an Inference, Identifying the Solution or Relating Personal Experiences. (WP)

€51.95

This book addresses a story as a whole and also focuses on specific story elements.  Included are an explanation of how to tell a story; original illustrated stories with worksheet guides for re-telling the stories; activities covering aspects common to all stories such as sequencing, inference and various points of view; activities for describing characters, settings and events; story beginnings with pictures and activities so students can generate their own stories.  Ages 7 to adult. (WP)

€37.95

This book gives ideas for activities which will help with ordering of words to form a question as well as the use of words such as who?, what?, when?, why? and how?.  Divided into three sections, this book offers pictures and simple activities for teaching young children how to construct questions by changing word order or using specific question words; challenging exercises and activities to refine the expressive language skills of older students and adults; discussion and examples of the grammatic construct used in forming questions – including all verb tenses, modal auxiliaries, passive voice, indirect discourse, conditional statements and specific question words.  Ages 6 to adult. (WP)

€37.95

Each language lesson covers language objectives, materials needed, appropriate age levels, activity procedure, sample stimulus items, consultation ideas.  Each activity can be adapted to the appropriate language level within a classroom.  Language ages 5 – 11. (WP)

€41.95

This programme is divided into 3 parts: Part 1 covers the theory and background of the multi-sensory approach to teaching: Part 2 introduces basic techniques for the programme.  Language skills are developed using Reading and Spelling Cards (Not included in the book).  Also included are word lists, summary checklists and comprehensive suggestions for teachers; Part 3 includes further checklists and work is covered using long vowel spelling choices and more advanced language skills.  Details of equipment required for the programme are included in the book.

€104.70

(90 minutes - Video) The information covered in the parent guidebook, You Make the Difference... in helping Your Child Learn is brought to life in nine 10-minute modules.  This series of videos shows how parents can foster their child’s self esteem and learning during the natural conversations of daily living.  Though these teaching tapes are designed to accompany the You Make the Difference Program, they are a valuable resource for all professionals working with parents of young children.

*€ 179.95 (Vat @ 21% must be added to the price).

DVD €55.95 & VAT 

This attractive guidebook, filled with colourful illustrations, helps parents connect with their young children in ways that foster the child’s self esteem and learning.  The simple language and humorous cartoons lift the information off the page.  The style of this book will appeal to all parents who enjoy user-friendly resources, especially those with limited literacy skills and those who have other first languages.

€18.95

A beautifully illustrated, easy-to-read guidebook on the Hanen approach for Early Childhood Educators/ Teachers which describes how teachers can maximise interaction and language learning within daily routines, play activities and circle time, as well as how they can facilitate peer interaction and emergent literacy.

€47.95

A parent’s guide to helping children communicate; This well-illustrated guidebook, developed for the Hanen Program for Parents, contains clear and practical information on how parents can facilitate their children’s language learning within everyday conversations, daily routines and play activities.  It also includes checklists for recording developments.

€48.95

This resource contains more than 100 communication-based activities e.g. turntaking, location of sound, working towards sound, group games, sequencing stories, social and action words, in reproducible format which provide a practical framework on which to plan programmes for pre-school children and their parents.  The contents include: Pre-verbal skills; Listening – awareness of sound; Listening - awareness of voice; Vocalisations; Auditory discrimination; Speech discrimination; Auditory/visual discrimination; Early words.

€53.95

Age 3 – 7.  More than 60 concepts are presented in 18 illustrated photocopiable sections that cover; colours, numbers, shapes, size, spatial relationships, comparatives and superlatives, similarities and differences; negation.  Students select the appropriate Dotbot through listening to the sentence and attaching a coloured dot to it.  More than 250 activities lead students from concept introduction through review and stabilisation.  Age 3 – 7.

€46.95

Through dialogue between two cartoon characters students are given appropriate sentence structures to use plus extensive vocabulary to incorporate into their definitions and descriptions.  Hundreds of words are organised into 11 categories (such as places, animals, food, clothes, jobs, tools and sports) and 22 attributes (for example, size, shape, texture, weight, time, feelings, parts).  More than 70 worksheets allow students first to practise categorisation and use of attributes and then to apply these skills to the formulations of definitions and descriptions.  Ages 7 to adult. (WP)

€37.95

These worksheets provide a range of language activities, ranging from easy, primarily oral activities using pictures, to more difficult activities incorporating reading and writing skills.  The format includes “fill-in-the blank”, picture matching, sentence completion and this volume includes simple sentences, transformations (negation, passive voice, questions), compound and complex sentences.

€81.40

These worksheets provide a range of language activities, ranging from easy, primarily oral activities using pictures, to more difficult activities incorporating reading and writing skills.  The format includes “fill-in-the blank”, picture matching, sentence completion and this volume includes labels and actions, object functions, locatives, attributes (quality and quantity) and time and sequence.

€81.40

These worksheets provide a range of language activities, ranging from easy, primarily oral activities using pictures, to more difficult activities incorporating reading and writing skills.  The format includes “fill-in-the blank”, picture matching, sentence completion and this volume includes Greetings and Goodbyes, Calls for Attention, Requesting Permission, Asking for Information, Commenting, Direct and Indirect Requests, Protesting.

€81.40

These worksheets provide a range of language activities, ranging from easy, primarily oral activities using pictures, to more difficult activities incorporating reading and writing skills.  The format includes “fill-in-the blank”, picture matching, sentence completion and this volume includes regular and irregular plurals, possessives, words with “er” endings, tense markers, noun/verb agreement, comparatives and superlatives, personal and possessive pronouns.

€81.40