THREE TRICKS TO GET YOUR TODDLER TALKING 1.Take what your child gives you, make it bigger, and give it back. If your child says “ball!” you give them the ball saying “Yep! This is a ball, a biiiiig, red ball! Bounce the ball! Ka-boing, ka-boing!” This is called language expansion: take a concept, grow it a bit, then give it back to your munchkin. It is one of the most important aspects of language facilitation and I teach it to parents all the time. 2. Give your child your attention when he or she is talking – and by “talking” we mean babbling, singing, saying words, engaging in sound or word play – you teach your child that those things are important and worth your time, and you sustain their interest in it by paying attention to it yourself. 3. Use lots of melody and facial expression when you talk with the baby. Use changes in volume. Sing. Use your hands. This makes you even more fascinating than you are. You are already one of the most intriguing things in your baby’s life. But when you create interest around the act of talking, you get your baby to attend to it for longer periods of time and that gives your baby even more opportunity to learn.
Posted on: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 13:57:00 +0000
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