YouTube video by Ming @ Agents of Speech (Feb 7, 2023) arguing that parents can be highly effective therapists by learning and applying teaching strategies for language acquisition. The speaker emphasizes teaching long-term strategies (how to learn, facilitate language at home, avoid spoon-feeding) over short-term tactics (bribes, rewards), and training parents to prompt independent language learning in children.
A very big thing that I think I can speak for other speech therapists is that we believe to teach you how to fish instead of giving a fish. Teaching a strategy so that a kid knows how to acquire language is very important. And also teaching you how to teach and facilitate language at home is also strategy that you can use. And strategies are long term, tactics are short term. So if I teach you, oh, you got to bribe them, you got to reward them. Those are tactics. You use it once or twice and you get some short term gains. But in the long term, you need to teach a child to learn, learn by themselves. And also we have to teach parents like yourself to learn how to facilitate language and not just spoon feed the child with all the answers, allow them to think, teach them in an effective way. That's why we focus on strategies instead of how to's.
