
Learn how to help your child look at you often to develop strong social communication skills.
Make sure that your child is paying attention to the words that you use, to develop solid understanding of language.
Learn how to recognize and encourage the skill of joint attention in your child. This skill is important for the early development of social communication skills.
Help your child learn to imitate your facial expressions, sounds, actions, and words.
Learn to recognize and encourage babbling, to help your child turn first sounds into words.
Practice using gestures along with your speech to help your child better understand, and remember what you are saying.
Use pictures and objects to improve understanding and encourage first words
Learn to offer frequent choices to your child throughout the day. Find plenty of opportunities to encourage communication.
Help your child learn to use a variety of consonants and vowel combinations, and start transforming those first sounds into words.
Teach your child some first words that are easy to pronounce to build up confidence.
'TEACH YOUR CHILD TO TALK' has been created to help parents learn professional speech therapy techniques to use at home. It is designed to help you become your child's best speech/language teacher and communication partner. It begins with early skills such as paying attention, understanding words, using gestures, and making choices. You'll learn to speak so that your child can easily understand your words. You'll learn how to help your child use sounds, words, gestures, and signs to communicate back to you with confidence. Come discover how simple and fun it is to teach your child to talk.
This course has been created to help families build strong communication skills at home. Strong early language skills support future academic and social success. Prepare your child for success at school, and help them develop early social and friendship skills. This course can either help your child catch up, or teach them from the very start to communicate with confidence.
This course includes...
Over 60 minutes of video teaching created by Lara Goldie, a certified Speech-Language Pathologist
Printable PDFs that go along with each lesson
Entertaining and informative video demonstrations of parents working with their toddlers/pre-schoolers
9 different lesson topics
What to expect: A list of language milestones from birth to 6 years.