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Littles aren’t expected to answer simple questio

Littles aren’t expected to answer simple questions until they’re between 2-3 years old. For our late talkers, questions can be pretty confusing. All those “extra” words to sort through!

You can help your little one by dropping the wh- words (what, where, who) and either using inflection to ask a question, “Milk?” or rephrasing as a command, “find your shoes.”

Once their understanding of language is a more firm, we can start to add in the question words again.

Questions? 😉 Post below or message me! (I love to get DM from parents and other therapists.)

Littles crave structure and spend a lot of the day

Mamas, I know we want our kids to share, but it’

Mamas, I know we want our kids to share, but it’s a sophisticated skill that they don’t truly understand until they’re over age 3!

When a child is a “good” sharer younger than that, I would argue they’ve been “trained” to give up toys easily or that their expected, short attention span means they don’t mind losing a toy. Swipe to see how play develops (you may want to bookmark). Play skills take longer to develop than most adults think!

Who else gets a little bored with a jack-in-the-bo

Who else gets a little bored with a jack-in-the-box? 🙋‍♀️ But the littles LOVE it!
Does this classic even develop anything? Yep!

The repetitve “Pop Goes the Weasel” music, let’s kids anticipate the exciting “pop” of the lid. When we do this together, we’re working on:
💫 Joint attention
💫 Social back-and-forth
💫 An early first word/sounds in “pop”

Plus, they’re usually motivated to ask for help (because that teeny tiny crank is hard for most of them)!
I have one little person who just started to say “doggie” when Llama pops out 🤣 and would happily play this for our entire session. But I’m bringing something different this week—for my own sanity and to work on being a little more flexible in our play 😉

Who else has a jack-in-the-box in rotation?

Little ones are BUSY which makes it easy to target

Little ones are BUSY which makes it easy to target these words during their typical day.

Why are action words so important?
✅First words are usually nouns; late talker vocabularies tend to be particularly focused on nouns
✅Children need a vocabulary of 50 words before they start creating word combinations
✅Word combinations need a variety of word types

If we ignore the type of words our little ones are acquiring, it’s easy to find ourselves in a situation where we seem to be making a lot of progress towards “catching up” only to fall behind when we can’t make the leap to word combinations. Targeting action words early can help us avoid this!

What’s your child’s favorite action?

Well done, Mrs. Mallard! I have a few friends I’

Well done, Mrs. Mallard! I have a few friends I’d like your help with 😉

Direct therapy services can do a lot, but without

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