Bailey Speaks! is a children''s book series that educates parents, teachers, and therapists on ways to expand a young child''s communication at home or school. Children will love hearing about Bailey and her adventures while the reader will learn delightful and engaging ways to stimulate speech and language skills. Book One: Sounds and Gestures focuses on early language development through imitation, repetition, and play! Author Mary Mayo Balfour Calvert, MA, and illustrator Sharon Lockwood, PhD, are professionally published speech language pathologists with more than 100 years of combined experience - the perfect team to bring this enjoyable, educational story to life! Join David on his magical quest to teach his dog, Bailey, how to speak!