Teach Me To Imitate Words | Late Talker | Speech Therapy |Laura Mize..teachmetotalk

Do you know the #1 skill all late talkers are missing? They don't know how to imitate words... which is always linked to late talking. In fact, imitating can be the one thing that separates late talkers from toddlers who are already talking. So... how do we teach nonverbal toddlers to imitate? Obviously, we can't start by trying to teach them to say words. They're not able to repeat words no matter how much we beg, bribe, and plead! What most parents of late talkers don't know is that there are "levels" of imitation that all kids learn before they begin to talk... whether a child talks late or on time. During infancy, babies learn these levels of imitation easily and naturally as they mature and grow. When late talking occurs, we know that a child has gotten "stuck" in a level of imitation and hasn't been able to progress to imitating words. When this happens, we must determine where they're "stuck," meet them there, and then help them learn to imitate more complex actions, gestures, sounds, and until they're developmentally ready to imitate real words. Once they're imitating easily and frequently, we've turned them into full-time imitators, which leads to a child who talks!
In this 8 part podcast series Building Verbal Imitation in Late Talkers, learn an effective hierarchy for teaching imitation skills to late talking toddlers and preschoolers using evidence based, science-backed strategies that emphasize imitation as the KEY component. This method delivers a practical framework for knowing where to begin working with a late talking child, provides ideas for what to try when a young child’s progress stalls, and can serve as your new approach when your standard methods don’t seem to be adequate for a particular child’s language delays.
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Therapy manuals for professionals & parents for toddlers & preschoolers with language delays:
The Autism Workbook teachmetotalk....
Let's Talk About Talking teachmetotalk....
Teach Me To Talk The Therapy Manual teachmetotalk....
Building Verbal Imitation Skills in Toddlers teachmetotalk....
Teach Me To Play WITH You teachmetotalk....
FUNctional Phonology teachmetotalk....
The Apraxia Workbooks 1 & 2 teachmetotalk....

[@elizabethreily5089]

At 1:25 the little girl practicing "bow" is so good!

[@miniseka1]

Great one. Thank you

[@MarinaReznik]

Can you please give suggestions about bilingual late talkers. I hate to give up on using both languages but at this point I'm concerned that I need to focus on just English

[@fatimayoussef2664]

Laura , my son is in level 5 of imitation , but suddenly he started saying easy words like hi , bye , up , eye , so should I stay work at level 5 or jump to level 7 as he started imitating words ? Thank you for your hard work , you are a life saver ❤

[@teachmetotalk]

Sure! You can always try words and if he's not imitating new words pretty easily, bump back down to verbal routines. That's great he's making so much progress! Congratulations to you!

[@fatimayoussef2664]

@@teachmetotalk there is no word describes how grateful I am to you . The only speaker in this world who made sense to me and I very seen amazing results in just 2 months . God bless you, we needpeople like you in this life .

[@constance7603]

Too long