The story He Talks Funny is about a "special needs child" who has a neurological speech disorder and cannot be understood when he talks. How his mother helps educate his camp counselor and camp mates about her son's disabilty is the essence of the boy's acceptance into camp.
It is also available on a ebook version too.
Read by speech and language pathologists, Who have found it quite informative. Look for reviews on Amazon, and my website.
The book can be purchased on my site.www.jeannebuesser.com,amazon, bn.com, authorhouse, any bookstore. You can also get it from the library. Please look at my new website.
I am trying to get the book "adopted" by the "core curriculam" in NJ under bullying, teasing into all the required lists for schools and libraries. If anyone can assist who is a teacher in education in that process it would be appreciated. I have written a talk to go along with the book. Please contact Jeanne if you're interested in hearing it.
Excerpt
One day, Joey was in the Camp Green's playground playing by himself....
Professional Reviews
Wow!
I just wanted to tell you that I bought your book, “He Talks Funny,” and it made me cry. My son is the sweetest boy. I would say he is about 40% coherent to strangers and has sensory processing disorder and everything else that seems to come with apraxia. Sometimes people forget that kids with disabilities also have feelings so I just wanted to take this moment and thank you for writing the book to educate people about this disorder.
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Reviews for "He Talks Funny- special needs book"
Reviewed by Laura H.
3/29/2019
The addition of 'Normal Language Milestones' is a wonderful resource for parents, family members, and healthcare personnel.
This book is informative in explaining this speech disorder in children. The writing is extremely easy and understandable for any reader.
The mother and counselor's willingness to make one boy's camp experience the best it could be -- was truly the backbone of this publication.
It is refreshing to see a children's book explaining a disability lived with by so many which hopefully opens the door into conversations about apraxia and then into other disorders--speech or otherwise.
Books like this need to be EASILY FOUND in our schools. It is not enough that they are in a school library along with thousands of other books -- they have to be FOUND.
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