Ming from Agents of Speech explains how to teach delayed children language by focusing on high-frequency core words like nouns and verbs, then explicitly teaching them to combine those words into sentences. The approach emphasizes bombarding children with the same vocabulary repeatedly rather than teaching isolated functional phrases.
The other approach is that maybe we should teach, like, a lot of vocabs, high frequency words that are single words, right? And then we'll start to combine them. And that's the thing that I like a lot more, because at this point in time, if you have functional language, that is in phrases, that will get you in and out daily, and then on the side, you teach all the words, it's about words, verbs, and then it's childlike sentences, and then adult sentences. So all we need to do is to bombard a child with nouns and verbs, all the single words, the concepts, locatives, whatever, and then teach them to combine them. Right. And that's how it is.
