A short video by Ming @ Agents of Speech advising parents of speech-delayed children to prioritize training and home-based therapy over seeking diagnostic labels. Ming argues that focusing on diagnosis diverts time and energy from practicing therapeutic strategies that actually expedite progress, and promises practical principles in subsequent videos.
Focus on the training and not diagnosis. A lot of parents will say, oh, I need to find out the diagnosis. So that assault, first of all, the journey itself. The only way to expedite something is to do more of it. If you focus on the diagnosis, you will get more knowledge on making diagnosis, which is not your job. Your job is to be a therapist at home, be a teacher, be a parent, be a mother, be a father. I know it's important, but it's not your job. You might be advocates of which, but you cannot focus all your time and energy into thinking about the diagnosis. Because when a child starts off a non verbal phase and the nonverbal and you can see the videos that we talk about like non verbal children, sentence building, whatever, it all comes down to a few principles that we'll talk about in the next few videos that we upload. But at the same time I'm telling you, focus on the training. Don't focus on labeling and thinking about the labels because that stuff you cannot control.
