With step-by-step written instructions for tons of FUN and easy-to-implement activities, parents and professionals can be confident in their ability to successfully identify and then strengthen these 11 major skills that encompass all the important social, cognitive, receptive, and expressive milestones that verbal and communicative kids have mastered. These 11 skills are the "missing pieces" for our little friends who aren't talking yet. Do you have kids on your caseload (or in your own house!) who have plateaued and seem "stuck" at the same level with no real improvements week after week and month after month? In nearly every case, this can be traced back to a weakness in one or more of these core areas. Even the diagnoses late talking toddlers may eventually receive can be linked back to one of these 11 areas. We may miss it though, if we're not purposefully looking at early language development in this systematic, yet practical way.