I talk about 3 different communication styles that parents may use, the pros and cons to each of these styles in language learning for children, and how to tweak your communication to help increase language learning. 

I mentioned this book at the end of the podcast. It covers research related to how children learn language best and how parents can use their language to help with building better communication skills.

Thirty Million Words: Building a Child's Brain: Suskind, Dana: 9780525954873: Amazon.com: Books

The benefits of engaging in play with your child, especially those whom you suspect of having language delays. 

Supporting Links

Connecting With Your Child Through Play: The Surprising Benefits of Parent-Child Playtime — Exchange Family Center

10 Things Every Parent Should Know About Play | NAEYC

Ideas for setting up a room or space for your child to optimize the time you spend in language learning tasks. Your child will be exposed to language all day long; however, when you want to teach more focused language skills, this is a way to "engineer" your environment.

In this episode, I give parents ideas regarding how to model language for their children all day long, how to work language learning into routines, and how to be a "language model", focusing on specific words to optimize progress in language development.

In this episode, I give you 10 of the major reasons I see in my practice that children are not using words to express themselves.

Visit my website at PlayTeachTalk for journal entries, YouTube videos, and short courses offered twice monthly to enhance language skills in young children.

All things about how awesome the parents are that we see in EI therapies

The creators, definition of, and description of how parent coaching can create increased progress in therapy and independence and empowerment for parents who are using the model all week long.

Visit my website at PlayTeachTalk for journal entries, YouTube videos, and short courses offered twice monthly to enhance language skills in young children.

Additional resources for learning about the coaching model for therapy: 

What is Parent-Coaching anyway?- Parent-Coaching Mini-Series Part 2 - (thesltscrapbook.com)

Coaching - EI Excellence

Early Intervention - A Coaching Model | Achievement Center of LECOM Health, Inc. (achievementctr.org)

This episode goes into detail regarding therapy as a contract, collaboration between parents and therapists, and challenges to consistent services with tips on how to navigate when a therapy contract needs to change. Touches on Coaching Model, which will be further explained in Episode 3.

Visit my website at PlayTeachTalk for journal entries, YouTube videos, and short courses offered twice monthly to enhance language skills in young children.

The first episode of Play Teach Talk covers points to think about when you are making the decision regarding whether or not you want to pursue an evaluation to determine if there is a delay in your child's speech or language skills, and resources for  more information about child language development for the youngest communicators. 

Link to Developmental Milestones for Speech and Language 

How Does Your Child Hear and Talk? Speech, Language, and Hearing Developmental Milestones From Birth to 5 Years (asha.org)

This is the link to the federal early intervention program in my state- all 50 states have this program.

NCEI - CDSAs