Ming explains why parents need real-time feedback during speech therapy, not just techniques to practice at home. Young children learn best through play and floor time, not over-direction. Under-3s need intensive parent training; preschoolers benefit from coaching that lets them initiate communication.
More naturalistic approaches. So anything that is like floor time related or you know, learning how to play, learning how to talk, something from the hand and program is very good. The problem with telling you to look at hand and program is that these things, you require someone to look after you when you're doing it. Someone needs to give you feedback, someone needs to listen and look at what you're doing and give you direct feedback about where you're losing the kid, where you're saying too many words, where is that you are putting too much pressure on the kid, and so on and so forth. That's why parent training is very important all through what we call preschool from 2 to 6 years old. So below 2, if you go to 2 to 3 years old, you still need a lot of parent training and a lot of naturalistic approaches. But at the same time you're starting to do some me stuff, right? Meaning that you are kind of creating an environment where the child has to talk to you.
