Ming from Agents of Speech breaks down how to teach autistic children to speak using their favorite routines and toys. Set up a sequence, reward the end result, then pause or delay access so they have to ask for it. Repetition builds faster speech.
Using the structures and the routines that autistic children like a lot against them. Again, you're basically teaching them a sequence of how to use a tool or a toy. And then you want to reward at the end, because during play, the play itself wasn't even rewarding. Allowing you to touch their hand and do it in a certain way is already very difficult for the kid. So that's why we had to reward at the end, which is very important. Secondly is that once the child learns this routine, they want to stick to it. Then when you don't allow them to do it, or like, you stop or you, like, delay access, it creates communication opportunity for them to speak. When they speak, they get faster, they get more of it, they get better of it.
