PlayTalkLearn

Learn how to talk to your child in a way helps your child better process language and gain new words. And I’ll give you a hint, it’s not bombarding the system.

Figure out what kinds of words to use that will make the biggest impact on your child’s communication skills.

Learn how to talk to your child when they aren’t talking back to you yet. What’s interesting to them? What’s important to talk about? We’ll give you the rundown and you’ll feel like a broadcaster

Although that baby talk voice may sound annoying to adults, it’s actually a very specific skill to use with children and serves an important purpose.

Learn about all the communication skills that children gain BEFORE they speak, because there’s a lot of them!

We’ll talk about an important strategy to teach your children that can reduce their frustration (and yours) while they’re working on verbal speech.

Silence is golden, unless you have a toddler, then silence is suspicious. But! In this lesson you’ll learn how to use silence to your advantage and it’ll be awkward.

Learn about Communicative Sabotage, and I promise it’s not as intense as it sounds. We’ll talk about how to increase the number of chances your child has to communicate with you.

I think this one is my favorite topic. We’ll talk about teaching vs testing and it’ll totally change your views on how you interact with your child.

We’ll talk about how to give some freedom within structure so your child feels some control and also has a perfect opportunity to communicate!

Books! It seems pretty straight forward, but there’s probably a few tweaks you can make to support language development during reading and build a positive relationship with books.

So where are they supposed to be?! We’ll answer that question here with milestones broken down and next steps if you still have concerns.