Ming recommends car slide toys for speech-delayed toddlers around age 2-3, especially those interested in cars. Keep the box as a teaching tool to model and elicit the word "open" through repetition and suspense, encouraging the child to say or gesture the target word.
Car slide is one of the best toys that you can use for toddlers from like 2 to 3 years old. And it works wonders, especially if your child loves cars and transportations and stuff. First off, I want to say keep the box because it's really, really important. One of the reasons why we keep the box is because we can use it every time, store it well, and when we take it out, we give it to the child. They don't know how to open it. It's another opportunity for us to target some words. First one is to teach them to say open or at least make a gesture.
Open. And you do open. Open. Open. Good boy. One more time. Do open. Open. You just open. Nice looking. Last one. You do it. Open. You do. Oh, open. Good boy. There you go.
So once you open it all, you can now go like, like that and take it out so that the suspense is there.
