Hi! I'm Laura Mize, M.S., CCC-SLP, pediatric speech-language pathologist, and welcome to teachmetotalk.com's youtube channel. Here you'll find our FREE Therapy Tip of the Week video series with ideas for parents and professionals who work with toddlers and young preschoolers with language delays. You'll also see clips from my best selling DVDs. If you haven't already, please subscribe to my channel so you won't miss any of my new videos. For more great ideas for helping toddlers learn to understand and use words, visit my website at teachmetotalk.com.
I am an SLP in Turkiye. Your recommendations and strategies have crossed the ocean. You are amazing. After I started watching your Boardcasts, I now know better what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. I really appreciate you sharing these videos.
This is SO helpful as a developmental specialist, former teacher and ABA/Autism specialist. This is exactly what I was looking for, a list of pre linguistic skills to work with my early intervention cases. I like that you share professional terms as well as detailed explain them. I am eager to continue the book and read books that contain even more information. Thank you!!
Hi Laura! Is everything ok? I’ve been following you for 3 months and my baby made lots of progress, he’s saying mama now. I’m just worried that there’s no new content and nobody answers my mail. I just hope you’ve been very busy and back soon 🤗🙏🏻💖
You are a goddess in my eyes. I’m a 31 year old early intervention therapist who has gotten inspiration from you for years and I just had to let you know that.
I just stumbled upon your RU-vid videos after doing A LOT of Googling on speech delays in toddlers. I have a 2 yr., 3 mo old grandson who I strongly suspect has CAS. (My unofficial diagnosis after getting my google degree ;) Yes, I know that is your worst nightmare…but I can’t stop myself!) At any rate, he has qualified for free speech therapy and has had a few sessions, but I’m really wanting him to get more in-depth help as early as possible. The therapist is looking to increase frequency, but I have reservations about the quality of therapy he is getting at this level. I know - completely judging. Any advice is appreciated. However, at this time, I would just like to get my hands on any educational aids you can recommend - I’ve researched some PECS card sets but don’t want to overwhelm him. Anything else I should think of purchasing? Also, more background - I do NOT at this time suspect autism. He doesn’t seem to have any strong indicators. He is able to imitate physical actions and has only recently started saying ‘mama’ and ‘dada’ but that’s about it. He will occasionally try to imitate animal sounds - but not consistent and sometimes seems to go backward there. I think I’ve heard him say ‘nana’ once, several months ago. I’m just feeling very desperate and can tell it is starting to affect my daughter. Please help
Hello, i hope this gets a response because im at a complete loss with what to do. My child, for several years now has been repeating the last sound of a word. They do this quite often. I thiught it was somthing they would grow out of but now their younger siblings have developed this and so the three of them seem to have formed their own echo chamber and it's (the final sound repitition ex i was eating cake -ake ) I've finally figured out what its called word final disfluency. Do you know of a source where i can help them to stop or what steps i would take to find someone that can help them?
Unfortunately she gives little useful information. Hour and 30 minutes for effectively 15 minutes of info. It’s sad that these people here to manly sell their stuff. She spends hours in her speech tips videos but shows two minutes clip. We need actionable information then these mindless talk
Sorry ahead of time for the long post! I’m worried about my toddler with a possible speech delay and maybe ADHD. He’s 23 months and a few days and seems to be having a hard time putting two words together to make a sentence. We think he’s done it a handful of times, but it’s hard to tell because he some of them are word approximations so he’s hard to understand. He will sometimes also use an ASL sign and then say “please” verbally, and I don’t know if that counts or not? He also seems a little lazy (for lack of better term) because he will sometimes use the ASL sign for a word. He knows how to say milk, but sometimes he’ll use the sign instead of saying the word verbally. Teachers have mentioned that he is super quiet at school (he also just moved classrooms and is in there with kids who are bigger than him so that could also have something to do with it previous that they were worried about his speech development). The reason I worry about ADHD is because it seems like he gets distracted in the middle of following my directions. Like I’ll say “go to your room and get a diaper” and he’ll start walking to his room but on the way to his room he might find a toy and start playing with it instead. Or I’ll say “get your shoes and bring them to me” and on the way back he gets distracted playing with his shoes. Sometimes he doesn’t respond to his name, but I’d say about 70% of the time he does respond. He doesn’t respond. He seems to be distracted by a toy or a book or something else (my husband also sometimes doesn’t respond when I call him as well, so I wonder if this is a learned behavior he picked up from dad?). My husband and I are both super ADHD so I know chances are high that he also has it. But I’m worried with him being so young it’ll be misdiagnosed as autism. Idk about autism really because, his so emotional skills are pretty fantastic. Even though he does take my hand and lead me somewhere he usually uses his other hand to point to the object he wants and then he looks back at me to make sure I understand. Or he will look at me and/or my husband, make really solid eye contact and say “hi”or “hug” (usually when it’s nighttime and he’s trying to prolong going to sleep 🤣😂). They also tell me he interacts with kids at school and plays with them and shares toys as well. He also likes to pretend feed his stuffed bear a cookie, or get Buc-ee the beaver to “drink” out of one of his stacking cups. He also likes to be funny and joke around with me and my husband. The only time he ever walks or walks with a wide stance is when he is in a silly mood and is trying to make us laugh, or is being mischievous. He does do repetitive behaviors from time to time, but it’s usually functional play that’s repetitive like getting different toys and sliding them down a slide or turning a Amazon box into a slide if he doesn’t see his regular slide and sliding down that. He also really likes cars and thinks it’s hilarious and tries to copy me when I pretend the car I’m playing with is flying. * edit to add he also pretends the role thing that pops is a vacuum and tries to “vacuum” along with my husband and I when we vacuum the floor. 💕🤣😂 **oh, he also doesn’t really nod yes, but will smile and get excited or sometimes say “Ye”. He’s been shaking his head no for a while though and seems to be in the process of learning the actual word now.
Thank you for reminding me us to be quiet because we sometimes forget that we can overwhelm a child who has to deal with so many stimuli already. We sometimes think we can teach by talking so much so it’s good to remember to be quiet.
Is there an episode on behavioral stuggles (i.e communicating the concept of 'waiting' , redirecting pintching or biting to communicate to a form of nonverbaly l requesting what they need) . My child is in 2nd grade and I struggle with replacing these unwanted behaviors with appropriate ones.
You're a great therapist. I wish more therapist had a focus and guidance in parent couching along with the speech therapy. My son suffered an Anoxic BI at 18 mos. old, then diagnosed with Autism and Apraxia ≈ year later. The journey of speech and language therapy has been cloudy and rather confusing to me as why my son is not verbally communicating and what I should be focusing on to help promote communication. Im tirning to show #403 rn.
i first watched this video a year and a half ago just after my son's first birthday. I went from excited about the future to terrified because he didn't respond to his name and you made a big deal about it. Terrified was good for me because it gave me the kick in the butt i needed to get my mama gears turning for how to help him. We are still waiting on an evaluation. As far as i can tell, he very probably is autistic. He seems to be high functioning so its been really hard for me to find help for us. He generally doesnt qualify for services but only just barely doesnt qualify. Your videos have been a godsend because i am learning how to help him myself. I have been so empowered to learn and do everything i can for him. In fact, its probably thanks to you that ive managed to get him this far! His joint attention is way better. He has started to pretend play. He asked me for a cheese stick when he got hungry! He still doesnt do a great job responding to his name but thats coming along too. Whatever happens at his evaluation will be fine because I know we can do this. We will both be ok. Im excited about the future again and an autism diagnosis cant take that away from me, anymore. Thank you.
I have a three year old recently diagnosed with asd . I would say she has thousands of words but she uses 1-3 sentences when asked . She won’t do back and forth or describe what it was . She has to be prompted . She can use 7plus sentences when she talks to herself or to me ( not all the time ) she talks all day but notices she’s babbling more saying things that don’t make sense . She also repeats me while I am talking but mostly the ending . I noticed this when I had a play date with a friend and she is older then the friends kid by three days . He is able to talk about what he saw or did . We went to the airport and I saw this . She won’t do that , she can engage but she moves on to other stuff . The interest thing she wants my attention all day but it’s brief : mommy eat food , mommy banana please , mommy I am hungry : you have to give her options . I don’t know I am at a loss , I then have my baby (20 months ) who would give me and say help and you do it then she ignores you and you can call her 10 times she won’t answer till you touch her . Generally she doesn’t respond anyway .
Thank you Laura. Now I finally understand why 2 of my 3 kids never liked books. Both language delayed. My daughter finally started liking books after the age of 3. My son is 28 months old, autistic, and I am trying to find ways to help him progress. Thank you for all of your videos Laura. You dont know how helpful you are with all this informative content.
My 2 yr old about to be 3 barley has any words and has been at speech and ot for 10 months now. Does alot of these but i recently had him tested using the ados2 and they said he was not autistic and he has sensory processing disorder. He only has a expressive launguage and speech delay and not receptive. He has problem solving skills delay comapered to a 15 month old. He hasnt hardly made any progress in the 10 months and its really hard wondering why he doesnt want to talk. I have 4 kids and this is the only child i have that is behind. He also used to talk about 10 words at 15 months and he stopped using them. He doesnt even say mama anymore.
What can you say about toddlers who were typically developing until 12 months and then regressed. My son used to imitate gestures (never spontaneous) but stopped slowly over the course of the next year. He is 27 months old now and never imitates gestures. Along with no joint attention etc.
My son is 25 months now I’m a little worried about him as well. But all kids are different. If they want some that they can’t get or need they will try to to let you know. My son say nana instead of dada He always has but we have to be patient with them. Makes things excitable and words means nothing without the object ball ⚽️ show ball car show car or make the sound they make boom vrom beep beep they will get it
Not sure you will reply. What about toddlers he used to imitate and then stop? My son used to wave, clap, take keys to the door, blow air back at us, stick tongue out back at us. Doesnt want to anymore. Does it mean he lost that skill/regressed?.do we teach him again?
Every single video you put out there is absolute gold! You are such a blessing! Thank you for helping me so much in my therapy sessions with clients :)
Thanks so much for this video! I have saved it. I suggested this technique to a family in my preschool/childcare and it worked! They used goldfish crackers with the little boy who I suspect is on the autism spectrum and within a week or two, he was turning around and responding to his name.
I'm at 11:06 & I'm not trying to be mean but it seems like you're repeating yourself and I'm just waiting for you to get to the signs. It seems like a very long video for the list of signs. Maybe it's just me 🤷♀️. I do appreciate the video bc I'm trying to see if my granddaughter has these signs bc she has one sign already of walking on the top of her feet/toes, the Dr mentioned it.
This is so helpful! Thank you so much! My son will be 2 in 3 days and says mama and dada. He’s said two other word, but will not repeat them. This video helps me for his upcoming visit ❤
if you took Lizzie’s milk away from her before she was ready, she would have a meltdown. and the Neurodiversity affirming proponents wouldn’t like this at all!
Hi there..! I’m a behavior therapist and I just want to say… WOW. Your videos have been so so helpful! I have shared your channel with my entire behavior therapy organization here in dubai! Thank you for the phenomenal content and guidance! YOU ARE AMAZING!
