Ming explains how to push your child toward longer sentences by making communication harder on purpose. Hide the cookie or break routines so one word isn't enough. Avoid prompts you can't fade away later.
The mom prompts, what? Something like, what? Cookie. Oh, eat cookie good. Or I want cookie. Because your child's communication right now is far too efficient, you need to make it less efficient. So how do you do that? It's something that we call sabotage of communication. So how do we do it? If a child wants a cookie, right? They say, cookie, and that's not communicative enough. So I want you to sabotage it. And, like, yeah, cookie. And then you put it on your head. Or, like, you point it out, or you put it on the table, or you give it to someone else because they weren't telling you exactly what to do. Which is my next point. To sabotage a communication is very simple. You have identified the routine and the habit. It's like a cycle every time. Break it, sabotage it. Right? When they push you, they go, whatever. Resist to give verbal cues. Okay. Why? Because you can never fade out a verbal cue. Real therapy is all about finding a cue that works and then use it and then get rid of it so that it comes out naturally. That's how you do it.
