Paperback, 26 pages, 8.5X8.5, Bilingual
by Lou Vang
ISBN: 979-8345856673
Reading age: Baby - 18 years

A simple book in Hmong Leng that teaches about the negation word "tsis." Our author, a speech-language pathologist, understands that children may often lack understanding of the negative word "no" because of how abstract it is (i.e., when you telling your child "no jumping on the bed," they may hear the more concrete word "jumping" and continue to jump on the bed, completely disregarding the word "no," etc.). That's why we created this book to facilitate improved comprehension of the negative word "no." "Phau Ntawv Tsis" is part of our language series so in every book in this series, our "benefits checklist" page details the age for which the concept of the book is appropriate, as well as instructions on what to do during the book reading and provides suggestions on activities to complete following the book reading to ensure the lesson has carried over into everyday use. If you have questions about how to use this book or any of our books for teaching, please email us at fisherandfriendspublishingco@gmail.com or via Facebook at www.facebook.com/fisherandfriendspublishingco!

Fisher & Friends Publishing Co. is a company dedicated to providing resources to stimulate speech and language development in children. Studies have shown that children who were read to were exposed to more words by the time they entered kindergarten and the language stimulation they received from books had a direct impact on their academic performance. Not only is the language stimulation that children receive from reading important for academic success. It is also vital for cognitive development.

Reading anything is beneficial but the difference with Fisher & Friends Publishing Co. is that our CEO and author, Lou Vang, is a speech-language pathologist (SLP). She has a unique knowledge of speech and language development so she has carefully crafted each book and material to target a specific speech or language skillset, whether teaching a specific function of speech, a certain speech sound, a particular grammatical marker or other skill. With our material, you won’t just be stimulating overall language. You can choose the book and material that you need in order to address the specific aspect of language you are trying to remedy. In each book and with each resource, you are given a detailed list of skills that your item can be used to target and you are provided a list of therapeutic activities that you can do with each product.

We have also translated our content into Hmong so that we can extend the benefits of our products to our Hmong-speaking families and friends. Because our author, Lou, has a background in instructing Hmong literacy and is a firm believer in language and culture preservation, she has also created some special series dedicated to stimulating Hmong language and preserving Hmong folktales. Her hope is that by providing children’s content in Hmong, it will encourage the next generation to keep the language alive. She also hopes that her Hmong folktale series will serve as a time capsule, keeping alive the tales and history of our elder generation.

With the many series within Fisher & Friends Publishing Co., each with its own purpose from teaching speech and language, to preserving the Hmong culture, we hope that there will be something for everyone.

About the Author:

Lou Vang is a Hmong-American speech-language pathologist (SLP). She has always had a wild imagination and her outlet for her imagination was always writing. She remembers always being excited when presented with creative writing assignments in school and how her teachers would find her writings so creative and captivating that they would often read her stories out loud to her class. Lou also loved helping others. She was a natural caregiver and educator. As a young girl, she would volunteer in her church’s nursery and then when she got old enough, she volunteered as a Sunday school teacher. In high school and college, she always found herself in positions mentoring others. She founded her university’s Hmong-American Student’s Association and with it, founded and instructed a Hmong literacy course. Naturally, she majored in a caregiving field and received her Master of Arts in Speech-Language Pathology from Wayne State University in 2013. Since then, she has been serving families and children with speech and language disorders. She loves speech pathology so much that she also volunteers her invaluable expertise in online communities providing education and resources for Hmong children and families. However, her heart ached knowing that it would always be impossible to be able to help everyone. This is why she decided to combine all her passions of writing and helping others along with her expertise as a SLP and become a children’s book writer. As a clinician who has a deep understanding of the many fine nuances of speech and language where there presented opportunities for deficits, Lou wanted to create resources that families and other clinicians could use to address those deficits. She wanted to write books where, when you read, you would essentially be in a speech therapy session with her. Her books are a love letter to all those children and families who she cannot provide for physically, but she hopes through her books and material, she can provide help in an even more exponential way. She hopes you will find love, healing and fun through her books.

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