A short talk by Ming (Agents of Speech) explaining why language-delayed children struggle to report events; emphasizes prerequisite skills (ability to tell a story, sequence events, describe setting) and a teaching strategy of taking photos throughout a day to prompt end-of-day recounting.
When something bad happened, the child is able to say, pain, hit someone, hit me. Or like, someone hit me or whatever. But when you ask them why, what happened? They're like, I don't know. And they start crying and stuff. The language demand is too high in terms of the language ability. That's why. When should you expect a child be able to learn this? And how do we usually teach? The first step is your child has some prerequisite skills. The first thing is, can they tell a story? Can they put, like, the sequencing cards, story cards, into their correct sequence and tell you from start to finish with the understanding of telling you the setting, for instance, the time, place and what happened? Right. Any story, like even Star Wars. So can they do that? So once they can do that, what I want parents to do usually is I tell them, look, we'll go out with them and we'll take pictures of the day, and we keep on going. And then at the end of the day, you can ask them, how was your day?
