THE MOST IMPORTANT WORDS TO TEACH A CHILD AT HOME Functional Words for At Home Speedy Speech Therapy

Licensed & certified speech language pathologist providing at home tips/tricks for parents when working on increasing vocabulary, speech and language skills. Today we focus on FUNCTIONAL COMMUNICATION, which is very different from vocabulary development. I hope this answers your question of: What are the BEST words to teach a speech delayed toddler?! When your child says: “TV” or “Mickey Mouse” CONFIRM that you heard them but ASK and/or MODEL what they want to do with the TV (i.e. “oh, TV ON?!” Or “oh! WATCH Mickey Mouse?”) Instead of “ball!” Try “THROW!” Or “throw ball!” Functional vocabulary words: Want, help, eat, open, close, drink, go, play, read, mine, give, & continue with almost all verbs! Add VERBS into your daily routines when your child labels/names something!