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Books Are for Talking, Too! (4th Edition)

by Jane L. Gebers

The quality of your interactions is what matters most during shared storybook reading. Books are for Talking, Too! (4th Edition) is a resource for promoting oral communication and early literacy through the low-text picture book genre of children’s literature. This time-saving guide presents literally hundreds of quality books and details innumerable methods for professionals, parents – or anyone working with children from preschool through Grade 5 and beyond – to use during interactive shared book reading to address a wide variety of skills. The updated, 4th edition includes over 60 new children’s books, making a total of over 260 books featured in its three catalogs. You’ll find more methods for targeting early literacy (such as knowledge of print concepts), vocabulary development (including idioms, homonyms, antonyms, synonyms, similes, metaphors, and higher-level concepts), grammar and syntax constructs, language discourse skills (including predicting and sequencing events, cause/effect relationships, storytelling, and verbal expression), social/pragmatic language, and speech production (including articulation, voice, and fluency). Plus, there is a whole new section devoted to phonological awareness training using the same games as featured in the last edition, to use with newly added picture books.

Take advantage of this trove of knowledge to solidify speech and language skills, and strengthen the language-and-literacy connection in young children – skills for a lifetime of success.

Click on the Book Talk link below to see the kinds of books and skill building methods found in this popular resource. You’ll learn more about the ideas behind Books Are for Talking, Too!

Aside from children’s literature, my other passion is equine photography.

ABOUT JANE GEBERS

I’ve been a practicing speech-language pathologist for over 30 years. I am California licensed and have worked in hospital, school and private clinic settings in California and Washington. I’ve been an adjunct professor at St. Mary’s College in Moraga, where I taught a Language Development course to students pursuing their special education credential. I currently work in private practice through video/teleconferencing sessions for speech therapy and vocal coaching. I get great satisfaction from helping my clients achieve their potential in speech and voice training.

Decades of experience, including 10 years of training in voiceover for broadcasting, additional training in accent reduction, and 20 years as a workshop presenter and college course instructor, have given me a unique understanding of a speaker’s vocal production needs that is unique to my field.

I obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Speech and Communication and a Masters Degree in Communicative Disorders from California State University Northridge.

My areas of specialty include:

  • Articulation therapy
  • Voice therapy
  • Language Remediation (Spoken and Written)
  • Stuttering therapy and
  • Vocal Coaching to improve voice production and presentation skills.

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Presentation skills

How To Get Started

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Contact us for a free consultation.

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Receive an evaluation, resulting in specialized, prescribed goals for areas of focus.

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Learn techniques taught in regularly scheduled, individual sessions.

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With continued practice, accomplish goals and begin to see results.

TESTIMONIALS

H. M.

We’ve known Jane for 5 years. She has been working with our two girls and they have shown tremendous improvement in both pronunciation and stuttering. She’s sincere, nurturing, and in the words of our daughter is “so so so so nice”!

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R.T., Actor, Producer

For a long time I was stuck in a mindset that it was too impossible to change my speech patterns. I didn’t want to accept that I had a problem. Through my work with Jane, I started seeing and hearing improvement. I would get positive feedback from others – that I sounded clearer and that they were better able to understand me. That motivated me.  I realized the effect it was having as I started getting hired for more acting jobs. Learning to modify and change my speech and my accent was almost like moving into a new identity. Jane guided me through that process. There are such a wide range of benefits to experience when improving your speech. There is tremendous value in articulating in a clear way. The better you sound, the more confidence in you other people will have.

R.T., Actor, Producer

M.H, MA, Educator

I will never forget Jane’s faith in me and her inspiration to carry on and keep improving. To not sink in fear that I wouldn’t be able to converse, and experience what I had before. Because of her and the techniques she taught, I was able to face talking in class as a student, complete my Master’s degree, speak in an interview, and then as a teacher, speak to students in my own class. I was very fortunate to have her understanding, care and wise recommendations.

M.H, MA, Educator

Cynthia Zuniga, Former litigator, Dyslexia advocate

I so appreciate Jane Gebers’ expertise, and professionalism. I first hired her in 2021 to address my son’s significant stuttering issue when he was finishing up Kindergarten. When we first spoke on the phone, she explained a few things about stuttering. My son is now in 1st grade, and since then, he has improved greatly with her sessions. I have also learned so much from Jane about speech and language issues in general. She really took the time to explain the nuances of speech and language difficulties, and shed light on my son’s particular issues, which involved more than just stuttering. I also asked her to attend my son’s IEP meetings and help me revise the goals. I paid her for her time, as her experience and expertise in the IEP setting is invaluable. I cannot recommend her enough. My son and I look forward to her sessions every week.

Cynthia Zuniga, Former litigator, Dyslexia advocate

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