Ming from Agents of Speech explains how to help speech-delayed children speak on their own. Avoid heavy verbal prompts and asking kids to repeat sentences, since that creates dependence. Use visual cues instead to encourage spontaneous speech.
If you found something that works for a kid, stick to it. Don't change, Right? And if it's working already, you got the desired outcome. Let's say you want your child to speak sentences, but you got a bunch of cues and prompts. Think about how to get rid of it. Even those questions are cues and prompts. What I mean is, if you're asking a question, who is this? What's happening here, what happened after whatever, and then you ask them to say the whole sentence afterwards, then that's upon heavy cue. So you have to get rid of those. Maybe you should change those into visual cues instead of verbal.
