| ADVICE
TO PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH DELAYED SPEECH |
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- When you don't understand your child, ask for one repetition. If you still don't understand him, ask him to show you what he means.
| Take responsibility for communication breakdown rather than let your child feel badly for delivering an unclear message. |
- Help your child to believe he is a terrific speaker.
- Take responsibility for communication breakdown rather than let your child feel badly for delivering an unclear message. Let him off the hook by saying that you were not a ready listener.
- Set up contexts for successful communication by introducing topics the child can contribute to. This is especially useful in conversations which include a third person, especially a stranger who is not familiar with the child's speech.
- Rather than correct your child's mispronunciations, model the correct production in your immediate response.
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