4 Different EI Strategies to Use at Home
Given the wide range of options to help your child to increase their early language development skills, possible strategies to use at home include:
Recasting —> Repeat what your child is saying while simultaneously correcting their mistakes. For example, if the child says, “Dog eated bone,“ you might say, “Yes, you’re right! The dog ate the bone!”
Expansion —> Repeat what your child is saying but add words to make it a grammatically correct complete sentence or phrase (utterance). For example, a child might say, “ball roll” and then you can say, “The ball is rolling.”
Model —> Say what you would like them to say. You can model the whole phrase or one word at a time and then have them repeat after each word. For example, you can say, “I want ball” or “I.. want.. ball.”
Reading —> Read stories or books that they are interested in. When they are familiar with the book, you can pause and have them fill in the blank. For example, “Brown bear, brown bear, what do you see? I see a ___.”
While these are only a few strategies you can use at home, they are great ways to help increase your young child’s early language developmental skills.
Author: Nayeli Dominguez M.S., CF-SLP