Ming (Agents of Speech) explains strategies for moving a speech-delayed child from single words to flexible two- to three-word utterances. He describes "want-based" children who speak only when prompted and recommends naturalistic, play-based teaching: frequent play routines, modeling many different short sentences, and using routines/commands during low-pressure play to expand expressive language.
Children who are want based and also they will only talk when you instruct them to mom sit over there right? Something like that or daddy read the newspaper you know or whatever they need to be able to command to instruct to comment to to talk to you basically with two to three words and flexibly not so that is what I think two to three word level is all right. How we get onto the next level is that you need to start teaching your child more and more different sentences through a very naturalistic way. It might be through that you have a very like low to play scenarios right. And your job at home is just to play as much as you can with the child whilst giving them showing the models of language that will help them. Okay. And some people will call up Milou or Milo I don't know which one to be honest. And how you do it is just you keep on playing it creating a routine telling them what to do.
