If your child has a speech delay, consult your pediatrician and a speech therapist. This video includes tips from Chatterbox NYC speech therapists. Rachel, who is in the video, is not a speech therapist. Our toddler learning videos are for toddlers and babies and have information about how to encourage language for parents and caregivers. They focus on speech, language development and some of the building blocks of communication like gestures, imitation, pretend play and turn taking. This speech video for toddlers also uses simple songs to help children learn and have fun!
You can find Chatterbox at chatterboxnyc.com They are wonderful speech therapists that offer virtual sessions.
Other tips you may find helpful:
Talk slower, simplify language
Narrate what you do all day and what your child does like a newscaster
If your child is late on the milestone of pointing, you can help shape their hand into a point and have them point at something they want. Then give them the item the want.
To teach the sign for more, you can give the child a little of their favorite food. Then say, “Do you want MORE?” and do the sign for more. Help them (hand over hand) do the sign for more. Then give them a little more of the food. Repeat many times.
You can put a toy in a clear container with a cover so they have to ask for help getting it.
You can put toys on tall shelves so they need to point and ask for the toy.
You can sing songs with gestures and dance moves and encourage them to imitate.
You can practice taking turns by doing things like stacking blocks and saying “YOUR TURN” then saying “MY TURN” and putting on a block
You can also practice hand over hand with the gestures like doing the gestures of the wheels on the bus.
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Rachel teaches preschool music to young kids, toddlers, and babies and has a master’s in music education from NYU. She has also been a toddler teacher at a school for children with special needs including autism, speech delays, developmental delays, Down syndrome and cerebral palsy.
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