Ming from Agents of Speech breaks down how to teach non-verbal children action imitation by first assessing if they can sit, wait, and follow basic instructions. Start with what motivates them: what they grab or ask for. Use those everyday moments before moving to formal imitation training.
So learning to learn skills is a very basic therapy kind of concept. Meaning, is your child ready to learn it? Is your child able to sit with you for a prolonged period of time? Maybe like 10 or 15 minutes? Is your child able to wait? Is your child able to take instructions? If you stop your kid, is your kid going to punch you? You're trying to like, wrestle with the kid, Trying to get them to sit down while trying to say A, say B, they see, just trying to get the kid to sit down. The kid just like looks at them and walks off. They're not ready to learn. So therefore, you need to start by teaching learning to learn skills. How do you teach learning to learn skills? The first thing is, do they snatch from you? Is there anything that they want from you? What do they usually ask things from you? And you might be saying ming, that's very low level. I'm a seasoned mother, I'm a seasoned therapist. Watching this video and what you're explaining basically is the very basic concept of mending as in demand.
