Joanna Faber

Joanna Faber grew up in the Long Island home/laboratory of internationally acclaimed, best-selling author and parent educator Adele Faber. She completed a Master’s degree in Special Education and post graduate work in teaching math and science at the City College of New York. She taught bilingual students in West Harlem for ten years and contributed heavily to her mother’s award-winning book, How to Talk So Kids Can Learn, with her front line experience in the classroom. She recently wrote a new afterword for the thirtieth anniversary edition of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk. Joanna and her coauthor, Julie King, created Pocket Parent, an interactive companion app to their book, How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen. They also collaborated on the app Parenting Hero, an animated introduction to the How To Talk approach. Joanna lectures on communication skills around the country and conducts workshops based on her mother’s work and her own experiences as a parent and educator. She is the mother of three, and lives in the Hudson Valley region of New York, with her husband, dogs, cats, and an assortment of chickens.