A short YouTube advice segment by Ming @ Agents of Speech addressing parents of speech-delayed children. Ming emphasizes experimentation: try recommended speech-therapy techniques to see if they work for your child, stop any methods that don't help, and avoid paralysis by analysis. He acknowledges uncertainty and encourages practical testing rather than indefinite searching for a perfect solution.
One thing that I always hear from doing work on the Internet is that the moms will ask me, maybe this won't apply to my child. Are you sure this is going to work for my kid? Well, the answer is I don't know. If I tell you some techniques you have to try it first and then if you don't try, there's no real answer whether it will work or not. So without trying, a lot of parents will go into paralysis by analysis. They will keep on analyzing what's best for the kid, what techniques are working, but actually the best thing is to actually do it and see if it works or not. There's a lot of techniques that we talk about in agents of speech in our online courses, but if that stuff doesn't work then stop doing it and move on to something else. You don't need to listen to me. There's loads of people out there that you can listen that might work for a kid.
