Teaching Your Child to Speak Clearly | 40% off New Course

Hello everyone. Today is Monday, so we're going, going live and we have something exciting to announce and that is a new course coming out. And before we talk about that, yes, the link is in the description box. You can get it. It's 40% off because it's on a pre order. It's an early bird, so hop on. It's a week. That's a deadline. And after that it'll be a regular price. Okay, so you can check the prices there. Don't ask me now. The link is just there. Read for yourself. If, if it's something that's a good fit, then go for it. Okay, so what are we talking today is how to get your child to speak clearer. Okay, and what does that mean? So in traditional tradition, I can't even talk today. Traditional speech therapy, there's speech and language, right? And you know, a lot of the times when I talk to you, I'm teaching you how to do more language related activities like playing more, how to get them to talk more words, how to get them to use more sentences and expand their vocabulary and language function and so on. And the newer course is to teach you how to, how to correct their speech errors. Okay. So that's a huge part of our job actually. And as, as a whole, we call it articulation. And you might have heard that, heard of that before. It's umbrella term that is a little bit misused, but I won't get into it today, tonight. And what I want to tell you now is to, how to teach your child to speak clearer. Because a lot of parents will say, oh my, my kid, you know, a lot of strangers, they cannot hear whatever, that they cannot understand my kid. That's what they say. And I have to translate for them. So you're kind of like the translator if your child has like some speech errors that only you understand. Right. And we're not talking about children who, you don't have words yet. Those ones are more language based and that's when you know, the gestures, whatever those, those things come into play. But now we're talking about like children who already have some real words and real sentences and they have some marked errors, meaning you can hear that they're saying things wrong. Okay? So today I'm going to tell you something that you need to do, all right? And that's something really important, which is we do a lot of times when we, we just started our master's program and when I was like doing ABA therapy with autistic children, I didn't know any of this so I wouldn't really wanted to learn. And I remember going through the list of sounds like my ABA supervisor told me to do it. And I knew that there was something wrong with that. Right. There must be an easier way. So, you know, fast forward. Do Masters first assignment that I remember doing was trying to mark down errors. And what we had to do was we had to learn the whole phonetic system, the dictionary stuff, like the swiggly lines and stuff, the different vowels. And so we had to learn to transcribe so that we became more phonologically aware of what sounds and errors there were when we're dealing with children. So that's one of them. Okay, so how do you do it yourself? It's impossible, right? If you were to learn all the signs, squiggly lines, whatever, you don't need to. Okay? The first thing you have to do is to imitate your child. Like, think about. If your child says a word like that. Always wrong. It's always wrong. I want you to imitate your child doing it. And when you're imitating it, what you're doing is your brain is processing it. And then you become more clear what sounds are either wrong or missing. Okay? So when you do that, now you have a better picture. Or maybe that if they say, for instance, they say ladder, and they say yadder. Right? With a Y instead, then you will know. Oh, the L kind of becomes a Y at times. Okay. And it doesn't. It's not always consistent. Right. You have to do it for all the different types of errors that your child has. Sorry, my cat's crying. Don't know why. Anyways, so you gotta understand, imitating your child's errors is very, very important because you become a master of. And you can predict, ah, this word. He's gonna muck it up. You know, he's gonna. He's gonna do this, and he's gonna just screw it over. Like, screw. Screw up the word. Totally. Right? And when. When it's that, it becomes a lot easier for you to communicate with your speech therapist. You say, oh, my kid has these sounds missing. I love it when parents can tell me, oh, it's the. It's the L is the Y. It's, you know, the R is gone. You know, the S is sounds like, you know, it doesn't. Doesn't exist. I love it because then I can exactly tell you what to do then, right? So this is your first assignment. If your child has speech errors, imitate your kid as well as you can, because no one else knows your child's sounds better than you, basically because you hear it every day. Unless it's a trained ear like me and you know, like, I think I'm not the best, you know, person to teach speech errors. You know that there are teachers who I look up to as well. And obviously like later on I'll tell you more about like as, as if you're on my email list, right? If you're on my. I, I'm going through and teaching parents through email about how, what, what resources there are, what, where to look for it and so on. And I'll tell you where you know, all the information you need to teach your kid to speech speak clearer is on the Internet, but you just don't know the words. You didn't have education to search on Google easily, right? So everything is searchable, okay? That's how people like do the work. You know, even doctors have to search on, on Google at times just because they can't remember all the information. See, so it's not really the information that's the problem is the execution of that information. That's. That's the biggest problem. So that's what I'm trying to teach you here. All right? And that's why I've made the course. It's going to be totally available right now. It's pre, pre order, right? The. The course will be in seven days on the 27th of June. And now it's pre order is 40 off. You can use the link in the description, grab it now after seven days or regular price again. Okay, so let's see some cool questions. Isa says, hi, my son is 3 year old, didn't understand what we said. He's not making sentences, but few words. All right, so it's. We're not really talking about language per se today, Isa. But you know, for this stuff you can refer back to the previous videos and also you can also look at the. If it's only a few words, right, and not making sentences. I think one of the courses that we have is called Word Combiners is rather suitable for your situation. But, but there's loads of resources in our YouTube channel. If you search how to teach children to speak in sentences, you'll see a lot of stuff that I say. Okay, you don't necessarily have to buy stuff from me. That's what I mean. And where was I? Okay, so if you can identify what your child's errors are, it makes it super easy then to single down on that sound and start teaching it now. Single it ing down what does that mean? So if your child is missing the S sound, can you do the S sound alone? Okay, so the, the biggest mistake I see parents trying to correct children is that they kneel down, they go down to the level, because that's what the educational consultants of in the kindergarten teach, which is right, okay, so I'm playing with my hair because it's wet. I just had a shower. It's very irritating. So go down to the level and say the word slowly and articulating it very clearly, like showing the mouth very exaggerated and so on, like, that's cool, that's fine. Right? But given that they have already screwed up that word at what we call word level multiple times, what is the chance that they would suddenly be able to do it? Right? So you and I, if you are. You speak more than one language, like I do. You must have had some words that, in the foreign language that you're not very. That you're not very accustomed with. There must be some words that's super hard for you to. To. To pronounce in the. In the very beginning, right? Let me give you example. So for me, I'm right now, I'm in Indonesia, right? So sometimes they say some Muslim words like Assamalaikum. Right. In the beginning, it was like the tongue twister to me. I did not know what the heck was going on. You know, I really didn't know. It was like, to be. To be honest with you. And there are some words still, I still, still cannot pronounce no matter how many times I hear it, because I don't understand what the. What the sounds are involved. Okay. So, okay, my cat is finally given up. So sorry, I'm working. So, yeah, you need to understand that word level is impossible. So what do you do? You break it down, right? But the problem with a lot of parents and teachers is that they think they can only just break it down into like the separate syllables. And then they would think that, oh man, they've learned it now. So let me go back to that, to that example I was saying. Assam, Assam, Malay, Kum. Right? The logical way is to say Assam. Oh yeah, Assam, Malai, Mulai or Mulai, whatever. Mulai, kum or whatever. So like, you split into the separate syllables. But the problem is with these, with a speech error, with a speech sound disorder, it comes down to the individual sound, individual consonant, that is. That is, you know, that has a problem, right? So if you hear that the S's are gone, the T's are gone, the K's are Gone, the P's are gone, whatever. Then you need to get down to that level. When we call it a phonetic level, right? Only that sound. And when we do that, we call that by isolation, at isolation, right? So people say if you read in a report phonetic level, isolation level, what it means is just the consonant itself, right? And this is something I go and go into much detail, much more detail in the course, but that's what you need to be doing, right? The first thing is to identify that and then see if they can do. See if they can actually do the sound on its own. And that's pretty much it. Like, we do three things in a speech therapy clinic, all right? The first thing is articulation test. You know, those. Like a word list. And then, like, the kid reads apple or pear or whatever. And then we're listening, and we're marking down, scribbling stuff on the piece of paper. And then we're like, okay, this sounds fine. This gone. This sounds whatever. We identify all the sounds that are missing and erroneous, right? In a very systematic way that the test is made. And obviously, it's best that you see a speech therapist to do this, because if you administer it, the kid might be like, oh, and then it's very difficult to get it done at home, right? So after you do that articulation test, we do two more. One is called a stimulability test, which is what I told you about just now. Can you stimulate that sound at an isolation level? Right? Is it stimulable? Meaning, can you make the child say the sound? Okay, so I just came back from church just now, and there was a kid who is like, P5 now, and he keeps on putting his teeth. His tongue in between his teeth for S and that. We call it an identized S, meaning it's then, like, you know, like, you put your tongue between your teeth, which is your denture. Like, that's like teeth, right? And he makes, like. And he talks like Mike Tyson. I always tell him, like, dude, you talk like Mike Tyson. And it's hurting my professional ear. It's really hurting me. So he was stimulable to do the S sound by its own, like. Like that without putting the tongue in between, so he actually can do it. So the next level is like, after we know that we need to do a deep test. And as a, you know, as a speech therapist, you would. What we do is a deep test is to see at what level would he go back to his bad habit of doing like. Like that. So What I mean by that is from S. And then you go like just a C, the consonant isolation plus the vowel. So it might be sa, it might be C. And we saw, right? And you see if he can do it or not. If he goes like you say, hey, can you go? He goes. And then, you know, oh, that's the breakdown. Like, that's where he can't do anymore. Right. So therefore the training will start at there, that level. So it's very intuitive, it's very traditional way of doing speech therapy. Okay. And that's what I use a lot. I don't use a lot of like innovative speech therapy methods. I think I should be. But at the same time, why I think it's very important for me to do it is because it makes a lot of sense and it's very easy for parents to actually, to actually follow because it's very structured. And that's what we're trying to teach you inside of this crash course. And obviously it's not going to be perfect. Like all courses that I make, we update it. Okay. Whenever we see something, there's a whole, I have a whole backlog of stuff I have to update for the courses that I've written down from like parent Feedback. So, you know, like, if you get in early, it's, it's actually better because it gets better and better and better down the road with your feedback. Right. So inside the course, I will also teach you how to say specific sounds. Right? Specific sounds. So for instance, the, the most common ones that I, I, I encounter, like the L sound, you know, S that I talked about just now, you know, P, T, and then the K sound and then the F sound, M sound, the W sounds. There are loads of different errors. But at the same time, what, what I want you to do, what I want to teach you is like the framework about how therapist thinks. Right. And it's a really fast crash course because obviously you need to go through like how many 101s are there and a speech therapy degree to actually get into a clinical room to learn how to do this kind of stuff. So I'm telling you just really quickly, just the practical stuff only. And there are like minimal the theory involved and obviously just to get across some points that I see, like frequently asked questions like, oh, what about apraxia? You know, what, what about oral motor, you know, if you've watched me long enough, then you would know my stance about oral motor exercises. I still use it, but only for certain things. And I cannot just tell you whether, if it's true. It's correct or not. Just by you asking. You know, I see a lot of parents who ask me, oh, is my kid is like this, does he have apraxia? Does he have asd? You know, autism? Does he have this, that, whatever. It's not clear cut. I cannot tell you. And it's irresponsible for me to give you that kind of advice. And then the parent just wants to, like, probably you just want to hear it. Like, I just want. I just want someone to tell me what's going on. But at the same time, I'm telling you, like, this kind of stuff online that I'm like, you're watching right now. You know, I'm trying my best to make it as intuitive as it is, but at the same time, you know, the best is still to find a local therapist. You know, there's a lot of limitations that I, I do over here, and also there's also a lot of limitations that the therapist can do for you. Because at the end of the day, most of the speech training happens at home. Okay? Because, like, when I was talking to that kid at church, he was saying, oh, I'm doing the is. Because it's a. It's muscle memory. There's no such thing as muscle memory, by the way. But that, that's the wrong term for it, first of all. But given that the kid would say that, meaning he already knows his problem. And you think about how many times it is to actually reverse a bad habit. 30 days, probably by behavioral studies. Like 30 to 90 days, depending on a person. You know what they say, right? In Chinese, there's a saying called, like, dynasties can easily change, but habits are rarely broken or something like that. And I quote like Confucius or something, you know, like how on Internet you just quote hua, like say something and say it's by Confucius. Yeah, that's. I'm trying to do that right now. Okay, so you know what I'm saying, right? So at the same time, to break a habit, you need to form your own habit of teaching your child at home. All right? Because if you don't have a good habit of teaching a kid and being very consistent with it, then nothing's going to work if you're, if you're trying to teach your own stuff. And I know, you know, sometimes I'm saying, like, because I see inflation increasing by a lot, you know, like, I'm not even joking. Inflation is real. Rental is going up, you know, so what's going to happen to therapy? Prices is going to go up, right? And when therapy prices go up, what's going to happen to the availability of speech therapy? It goes down because most people would wait at the government services. Right? And what's going to happen to those therapists? They're going to be overworked. And now most of them, their salaries are frozen because of the current economic situation. So your best bet is really yourself, like always, that I've talked about, even before the pandemic. I was talking about parental education long time ago, you know, and it's truly something that will make or break your child's success in terms of like receiving therapy. All right? So you better do this yourself. No matter if you seek for therapy or not, if you're financially capable or if it's even available in your country, that's still like, you should still see a therapist. That's the best way. Right? But at the same time, you still need to do most of the work because they're the guide and you need to walk through the door yourself. Okay? They won't come to your house and solve your problem at another parent, you know, because the pandemic is calming down, especially in Southeast Asia. And then they're like, oh, man, can you. Can I hire a speech, a shadow teacher and I'll teach and you teach a shadow teacher. I've done that multiple times. And I'll tell you what's going on, all right? I'll tell you if you're doing any type of language or speech training or, you know, just behavioral therapy in general. If you have a shadow teacher or in house therapist that I supervise and teach them what to do, no matter if I supervise or not, the moment that they leave, that's the moment when your life breaks apart. You cannot have that going on. I've had a mother who just said, I can't do it anymore. I'm impossible. I need some time to heal myself. I'm not a teacher by me, by any means. I can't do it. But, you know, when she saw the therapist leave and then she had no, no, like she had no choice, right? That's what I'm talking. Like, people move on, all right? People go back to their countries, go back to their villages, go back to wherever, have a baby, have a family, and then, you know, like, then who's going to take care of yours? Right? So I'm just saying, I'm not trying to force you or like to tell you, but that, that's the truth here, all right? And. And that's parental involvement is the most important thing ever. So that's all I'm going to talk about tonight most probably. If you have any questions, put it in here now. Again, there are seven days from today onwards until Monday to join at a discounted rate for these people. It's just to test run the course, go through it. There's also an option to add articulation screener. That's online version of what I just said. Articulation test. I won't give you a report, I won't give you anything because it's not official. But what you get at the end of the day is that when I give you a word list for you to go through and your child tries to produce those words, I hear an audio recording and then I will tell you or my someone in my team will tell you that these are the sounds that you should be doing. These are the errors that your child has and these are the next steps that you should try at home. All right? And that's as valuable as it can get because seriously, you can go see us there. Like if you see me, right, it's going to be at least 100 USD, you know, like a sister in the thing about it, right? Because just rental. That's what I'm just gonna say. Okay, so that's all for tonight's live. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments. I'll try to get to them. And let me know about everything else. Okay? About like if you have questions about the course, if you have anything. But the next time I'll be seeing you, it'll be the closing day of this pre order. Okay, that's it guys. I'll see you in the next video which is next week live. And.