How do animal sounds help your child talk? Animal sounds are easier for a young child to imitate than most words. Helping your child learn various animal sounds will give him/her practice communicating while he/she is learning words. Using animal… Continue Reading
If you have ever watched a sport and listened to a broadcaster give the play-by-play, you would have heard the announcer telling everyone what he saw. When using the broadcasting strategy, you are simply talking about what you are doing… Continue Reading
Expansion is a useful strategy for all stages of language development. In order to use the expansion strategy, you basically expand on what your child says or does. For instance, if you baby points at a toy you can expand… Continue Reading
Repetition is an important strategy to use to help promote your child’s language skills. Some children need to hear a word over 100 times before they will even attempt to imitate the word. When promoting language, make sure you give… Continue Reading
Using a stair step approach with your child is an effective strategy no matter where your child is in his/her language development. Imagine that the top of the stairs represents adult conversation and the bottom of the stairs represents a… Continue Reading
Sign language is an excellent tool to help promote your child’s speech and language skills. It may seem to go against common sense to teach sign language as a method to increase talking, but it does work. By teaching your child… Continue Reading
Vehicle play is a fun method to use to help promote your child’s speech and language development. Most toddlers enjoy pushing their little cars around the floor. This strategy works best for a child who is not talking yet or… Continue Reading
While picking up a book and reading it aloud to your child is an excellent thing to do, this reading together strategy is a little different. Start by picking one of your child’s favorite books. If you child is uninterested… Continue Reading
Sabotage is a fun strategy to use with your child. It is hard for a child to resist communicating when this strategy is used. Sabotage is doing something unusual or setting up a situation where your child has to tell… Continue Reading
Turn Taking is an important skill for a young child to develop. Communication is a give and take process much like taking turns. Of course many young children are still learning to share and take turns with their toys. However,… Continue Reading