Ming from Agents of Speech uses a toy car slide to teach children words and gestures. The video shows how a simple toy can become a tool for language learning through play and repetition.
You want to teach your child the whole sequence how to play this toy. So you want to play it once yourself. Make sure the slide is facing towards you so that you can catch it. So you can go like 1, 2, 3, go. And then you catch it. So once you do that, your child is going to be hooked on this toy.
Ready? One, two.
Go.
Go. Good boy.
And now you can teach some words and gestures about it. So every time you get it, your child has to use the open palm to ask for it.
Good boy. There you go.
All right. The car comes down from this side, comes towards you, you grab it, you rub your hands together, and then you let them do the guessing game. Open, is there anything? No. You can teach the word no. Open. Is there anything? Yes. Teach the word yes. And then after that, you hold it up like this and you teach the word car, so you can say car. Good. Here we go.
