A short YouTube advice clip by Ming @ Agents of Speech on helping late-talking children: encourage caregivers to deliberately create situations that require children to produce longer, meaningful sentences (e.g., varying tools/verbs across steps), and to teach play routines—focusing on understanding the structure and mentality behind routines so caregivers can apply the method flexibly rather than rigidly.
A lot of times, mothers and fathers, grandparents, they take care of the child too much. It's a good thing. But what I mean is, if your child is delayed, it's better to actually create a situation where every time they have to say something longer, every step, they require different tools, different verbs. Then you do that, it's going to make a lot more sense in terms of teaching a longer sentence that has meaning for all things. Right. So other than sabotaging, like, daily communication, what else you have to do is to teach play routines. Each kid is very different. I want you to learn the structure and the mentality behind it so you can do it on your own. You don't have to 100% stick to that. Because what I want you to do is to understand the concept of I'm teaching you the fish, not giving you a fish.
