Ming from Agents of Speech explains why quizzing children to get them to talk backfires. Repeated questions without teaching the answer just stress kids out and make them less likely to communicate, not more.
Stop quizzing your child. I know you're doing it. You're watching videos from our channel because you want to teach your child to speak more, speak clearly, speak better, catch up, so on, so forth. So if you're quizzing your kid, you're putting stress on your child without really teaching him or her anything. Okay, I'm saying this from a place of love because I've seen this too many times. I've been that person too in the beginning, asking questions over and over, hoping the child would answer. And just the other day, I was talking to a client from Indonesia over the Internet, and she was like, oh. Our therapist asked us to quiz the child until we get a response, but I'm like, if he doesn't know the response, how, what's the point of repeating? Because if you repeat without teaching the response, then what's going to happen? And she said, he's very stressed. Exactly. You don't want the kid to be stressed. If it's stressful to communicate with you, why would anyone want to communicate with you?
