Shine Avi tip of the day

Working on developing conversational skills in your child here is a great program called reciprocal conversation. First you work on objects. For example; You would be holding a pencil, and child will be holding a different object such as a crayon. YOU will say “I have a pencil” CHILD is to respond “I have a crayon”… YOU “my pencil is yellow ,”CHILD “My crayon is blue ,”YOU “My pencil can write ,” CHILD “My crayon can color,” you can do it with any objects as long as they are known objects to the child The purpose of this is to get the child ready for back and forth conversation. This would be good practice Child may need verbal prompting and that is okay. once child mastered with objects, you then will start having reciprocal conversations relating to physical self. For example;YOU “I am wearing grey boots”, CHILD’s response would be “I am wearing ____” (whatever shoes she/he is wearing that day). The next step is talking about items at home , in a book, out the window, etc. YOU would say, “I see Ms Jen” and CHILD would reply, “I see___” something other than your response. This eventually leads to them reciprocating statements related to personal information with their peers which will help them once they are with their peers .So the goal for child would be if a peer came up to her and said “Whats your name”, child would respond “My name is Xx what’s your name?” then you eventually move onto statement/question where You would say “I went to the movies” and Child is suppose to ask you “What did you see?”I BELIEVE “If a child cannot learn in the way we teach… We must teach in a way that the child can learn”