If play is children's work, then fun is the magic that makes learning easier. These materials have all been created with success and fun in mind. Ruth Alice Jurey, M.S., C.C.C., is a speech and language pathologist with over 40 years of clinical experience with people of all ages. She has worked in hospitals, had a private practice for 27 years, and served elementary students with severe autism in public school for 13 years. Ruth has always used music in therapy, and her latest project, Autism Sing-Along, is a unique musical format for social stories. Autism Sing-Along recordings and visual support books are designed to engage these very special students, and to help them advance in interaction, language and literacy skills, and activities of daily living. Ruth is the author of The Reading Treehouse at aability.com. She created Playful Sounds: The Sound Foundation for Speech and Reading, a kit that includes speech-sound cards illustrated by Brenda Brown, and an Idea Book of early phonemic awareness games for kids. She is a contributing author to the Prager Perspectives volume Early Literacy, in the series Literacy for the New Millennium, Barbara Guzzetti, PhD, editor (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2007).