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Once your child has developed an ability to request his basic wants and needs, its on to more descriptive, conversational language! Developing descriptive, conversational language requires teaching new skill and developing the child’s motivation to engage in more social language. For parents of children with emerging language you can begin by teaching the child to share things in his or her environment using carrier phrases such as “I see”, “There’s a..”, “It’s a…”, “Look!”, etc.
Initially, this can be taught by using a visual to assist in teaching the structure for using this language. For example, create a visual with the words or pictures representing the words “I (picture of the child) see (picture of eyes).”
Take the child’s finger and point to the words/pictures on the visual while teaching the child to point and say the represented words.
Find objects (i.e. ball, shoe, book, etc.) in the home the child is familiar with and place next to the visual. Ask the child what he/she sees and assist him/her in pointing to the visual and object and describing what they say using a carrier phrase. Example: Child points to visual and book and says “I see book”. Increase the number of objects the child shares with you as he/she becomes more independent in using the full-sentence phrase. Once the child begins to be successful in using the visual to share the object with a carrier phrase, work on fading the visual out of the instructional process by asking the child what he/she says and assisting him/her to use the phrase independently.
AmyShymansky @ October 13, 2009
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