TEACHING FUNCTIONAL WORDS & SIGNS THROUGH REQUESTING: At Home Speedy Speech Therapy For Late Talkers

Licensed and certified early intervention speech language pathologist (M.Ed, CCC-SLP)
The BRIDGE to words!!!
Joint attention - communicative intent - pointing - gestures - signs - sounds - and finally, WORDS!
There is SO much to do! We have to set your child up for SUCCESS!
YOU CAN DO IT!!
Begin with pre-linguistic skills such as eye contact, attention span, play skills, then work up to social games and routines (ring around the rosey, peek a boo, giddy up horsey), following simple directions, identifying objects and pointing, and then begin using GESTURES and SIGNS to help teach words and communication.
Prelinguistic skills videos:
Following direction / social games: • HOW TO GET A CHILD TO ...
eye contact / responding to name: • HOW TO GET A CHILD TO ...
Attention span with books: • HOW TO HELP A CHILD LO...
Play skills and play routines: • HOW TO PLAY WITH A CHI...
• AT HOME PLAY SPEECH TH... - play with MAGNETS!
How to make a request/ask for something?!
1) set your child up for success to make a request!
- provide opportunities for your child to make a request by not anticipating needs & limiting access to your child's favorite snacks/toys
• TODDLER SPEECH THERAPY...
2) provide a SIMPLE sign PAIRED with a word and model, model, model!
- BE FUN! Use positive reinforcements and motivators
• HOW TO WORK ON SPEECH ...
- Don't over prompt - meaning, do not prompt ALL DAY for common objects/toys and food! Focus on using this technique with your child's FAVORITE thing and stick to it! For a minimum of a week, up to 50 times per day! (WHEW! therapy is hard work! I know!)
• HOW TO IMPROVE SPEECH ...
3) Use repetition, hand over hand (when you can and be QUICK!) and SHOW your child / help someone else be successful to model success!
• HOW TO IMPROVE SPEECH ...
4) provide a CHOICE to give your child POWER!
• HOW TO PROMPT A CHILD ...
- Try to keep it simple! Don't use difficult sounds or words! (for example, "j" is a VERY tough sound - leave it out!! Focus on the vowel - "OO" and the "s" at the end!)
5) Do a little, get a little. Do a lot, get a lot! Help your child become successful by not giving in to tantrums and negative behaviors - walk away. You can always try to prompt again later and your child will be more motivated because they were not successful the first time.
• HOW TO GET A CHILD TO ...
6) teach one sign / action / gesture at a time to limit a child "scrolling" through ASL signs.
Avoid OVERGENERALIZATION of "MORE" sign because some things cannot be "more!" and/or sometimes we (as parents and providers can't figure out what "more" is because we haven't given anything in the first place - so switch the "more" sign for something more functional - cracker, cookie, juice, candy, game, play, up, down, in, open! ANYTHING is "more" when they sign it again! But "more" can't be anything when nothing is given!
Development of Speech Sounds in order:
M, B, P, W, H, D, T, S + vowels (after age 3-4: K, G, L, N)
Still need help with how to get your child to work with you at home?! Check out these tips! (also for providers/clinicians at the end) • HOW TO GET A CHILD TO ...
Need help with TANTRUMS and behaviors?! Check out these QUICK fixes!
• HOW TO DEAL WITH TODDL...
Looking for M, P, B speech therapy hand cues:
• HOW TO TEACH SPEECH AT...
(other hand cues by speech sound under "articulation playlist on the Speedy Speech page!)
Vowels: • HOW TO HELP A CHILD MA...
** Download ALL of my hand cues for free at SpeedySLP.com **
** FREE RESOURCES and EXCLUSIVE PDFs emailed monthly at SpeedySLP.com ***
Please leave your questions, comments and video requests below!
Imitating gestures, imitating signs, imitating speech sound hand cues, imitating WORDS!
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[@marshasobie643]

You are so fast and effective and joyfull....I am so thrilled to have found you. Passed your site and videos on to others. I'm an avid fan of Laura Mize as well! Glad to hear you make reference to 11 prerequisites to language as well.

[@TheSpeechScoop]

Ahhhh!!! I just read this comment! lol I was recommending something you already knew about!!! Lol!

[@ma.theresamorales7586]

Thanks God have found you.this helps me a lot for my student.

[@TheSpeechScoop]

Awesome, thanks!

[@txpshooter5938]

You should write a book! Any book recommendations would be appreciated. My son just turned 3 and has suspected apraxia.. Wish you were in Houston to be my sons therapist! Wish I had your energy an knowledge. I’m trying an it’s exhausting! Our therapist is not grabbing his attention an has no enthusiasm like you and it’s costing me a fortune. More tips, tricks and strategies please! Just from using a few of your tips has helped him-unbelievably. My son loves and laughs at your onomatopoeia video! Thank you and God Bless!

[@TheSpeechScoop]

This is so nice!! Thank you so much for taking time to write this!! Absolutely I love working with children with apraxia! You can definitely book online consultations at bloomandshinegroup.com if you’d like!

[@brendadejesus9740]

Thank you 🙏🏽

[@TheSpeechScoop]

Any time!

[@sarahkhjohnson]

Hey hey! Fellow speechie here! Have you done a video talking about AAC or more specifically core board use yet? I love sending your videos to my students parents as supplemental information and I have some core boards kiddos whose parents just need a good informative video about it. They are very responsive to my explanations, but it is always good to have that secondary source to send!

[@TheSpeechScoop]

Hey there, absolutely, I LOVE pulling in other providers to reiterate or further explain something! Unfortunately I don’t have a lot of experience with AAC devices in early intervention so honestly my advice probably wouldn’t help much! I think I did hear a podcast recently from an SLP who works with AAC exclusively if you want to check that out! It’s at FreshSLP podcast on Spotify or online! Sorry I can’t be of more below right now!

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[@nmocte1]

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[@TheSpeechScoop]

sure!

[@Milen983]

My child likes water more than juice, but when sometimes he tries the juice a couple of times and wants it again and again, I try not to give it in excess. I use juice maybe one a month. He drinks juice only at grandpa’s. So no, water is not boring for him at all.

[@kachellesoum1655]

My son uses the “more sign” for everything. Almost like a crutch now So I encourage it ?

[@TheSpeechScoop]

Hey there! Acknowledge that he wants more, then provide / model 2 signs that are options for WHAT he wants more of- hand over hand help him choose one / do one & then reward with that! He may not like the hand over hand assistance so it is important to do it very quickly and make sure to be overly excited with a positive reinforcement ready to go!

[@user-wo8qb3ch9g]

How do you provide therapy to assist a student to say initial and final consonants during conversation level?

[@javeriazeeshan1358]

My daughter is 4 and a half and has lip-tie. She produces sounds for age 4 and above but doesn't say year 3 one's. Which she should be doing like b, m, p. How can I help her say b and p. She does say mmmmm now but only a few times after we make her practice. After that she starts subbing it with nnn again.

[@TheSpeechScoop]

Hey there, Does she typically have a mouth open posture? & Breathe through her mouth a lot instead of her nose? I usually see the situation you’re describing when I child has difficultly closing their lips which could be due to orthodontics needs (sometimes teeth stuck out from sucking thumb, pacifier or bottle) and other times could be ENT related. I would recommend lip exercises from my oral motor lip exercises video! & see how her lip strength is & be sure it’s not difficult for her to close her lips! Let me know your thoughts

[@javeriazeeshan1358]

@@TheSpeechScoop that's exactly it. She has difficulty producing sounds in which she need to connect her lips together. She did use pacifier a lot. Kindly suggest some oral motor exercises I can do with her at home easily.

[@braynhilton5300]

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[@javeriazeeshan1358]

I would really appreciate if you could give me some tips for b and p sounds as she doesn't even say ball or p sound like papa.

[@TheSpeechScoop]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hYPWk5h8dqZ_pdE here's the /m, p, b/ video! I would recommend making your little one has all of the vowels first though! :) Also download my free hand cue chart at speedyslp.com under resources!

[@braynhilton5300]

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