A short instructional video by Ming @ Agents of Speech advising caregivers of speech-delayed children to stop repeating long questions and instead change their own communication—simplify language, add gestures, and lower expectations so the child can understand and respond. The speaker uses a foreign-language analogy to illustrate caregiver frustration when repetition without simplification fails.
If you keep on trying the same thing over and over again, you get the same results. What you're banking on is that the child would change for speech delay children you want to be the person who's changing because they are developing at a slower rate especially for language you have to change. When you change you have to get rid of the bad habits. You shouldn't repeat your questions over and over again because you're getting ignored and child isn't really understanding that question. If you're in a foreign country, someone asks you a really long form question you don't understand they keep on repeating the question without simplifying it adding gestures. Google Translate no prompts. How would you feel? Obviously frustrated and confused. You don't even try to use some sort of broken English, right? Because English is more of an international language nowadays. There's no compromise. The same with your child if you don't compromise and teach them how to use lower your standards a little bit so that they know what you want, okay?
