Ming from Agents of Speech explains why play-based teaching works for speech-delayed children. Language develops through changing environments and new interests, not just requesting objects. Parents and clinicians should follow the child's lead and teach across different situations to build varied communication skills.
So if your relationship with the kid is that they always want to get stuff from you, then their language functions are always going to be like that. Their interaction will always be like that. So therefore, you have to teach them new things to learn new words, and for newer languages, newer language functions. This happens in every part of our lives. When we move to a different country, we learn new words that aren't inside of our understanding because the culture is different, the context is different. We don't need those words in our country or in our city. Right. And this happens a lot with newer technology as well. When you're watching this on your YouTube. YouTube is a new word, right? So like swiping up, swiping down is new stuff, and you have to learn those as well. And language comes after those. Communication intent comes. So you have to remember that you have to build those interests. You have to lead with play. You have to think about what interests your kid and go from there and go horizontal and teach what language functions you can do here.
