Bailey Speaks! is a children’s book series which provides strategies for parents, teachers, and therapists to enhance speech language development in young children.
Throughout the playful narrative, Mary Mayo Balfour Calvert, M.A., shares her favorite therapy ideas based on age-appropriate speech and language developmental milestones.
Veteran speech pathologists create playful new series to enhance early language development in young children.
Author Mary Mayo Balfour Calvert, M.A., and illustrator Dr. Sharon Lockwood, Ph.D., are professionally published pediatric speech- language pathologists with more than 100 years of experience between them - the perfect dream team to bring this enjoyable and educational story to life!
Join David on his magical quest to teach his dog, Bailey, how to speak!
“I have never seen anything like Calvert and Lockwood's wonderful new book... I am a Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrician who appreciates the importance of stimulating language development in all children. This book is a gem… I will be enthusiastically recommending Bailey Speaks to all parents and professionals. Can't wait to see the next book in this promising series!”
— Daniel G. Shapiro, MD
“'Bailey Speaks!' Is a fun, clever, storybook that 'barks' with a purpose to young readers, parents, and teachers. Bailey is just the right companion for the child who needs a book who 'speaks' to them… It will find its way into the hands of a child/parent/therapist/teacher that will find it both useful and graceful.”
— Jack Gantos, 2012 Newbery Medal winner
"There are powerful lessons to be found in this charming book. Parents and caregivers concerned with fostering a young child's speech and language development would do well to spend a moment with Bailey."
— Michael Jasnow, Ph.D. Clinical Psychologist