Natural Language Facilitation

Are you a parent or caregiver of a child who is not talking YET?

This guide is designed to help YOU help your child.

PARENTS have the BEST opportunity to teach the speech and language that late talkers are missing. Parents and everyday caregivers have been helping children use functional speech and language since way before there were teachers or therapists.

Late talkers show clear signs that they WANT to talk:

1. You know your child is LISTENING to learn language from videos, songs, or Ms. Rachel but they don't know how to use their memorized speech FUNctionally.
2. Your child has started experimenting with echolalia, gestalt scripts.
3. Your child hyper-focused and learning complex information (Einstein Syndrome).
4. You have heard speech on the monitor or caught your child watching themselves "talk" in the mirror.
5. You may have been told in an evaluation that your child's age, nonverbal status, short attention, and stimming behaviors mean that they will never use speech...
   1. BUT you have heard them occasionally say the right words at home.
   2. OR they sometimes copy things that you say.
   3. AND you can tell in your heart that they really do want to talk!

When therapy fails, parents and caregivers can motivate speech naturally.
Unfortunately, the popular verbal-behavior therapy models encourage parents to CONTROL their child's language learning through bribes, manipulation, sign language, PECS, and endless requests and prompts to imitate or "use their words".

If you've already tried using "reinforcement" to get this child to say some words (or fired a therapist who did) then you know how quickly a smart late-talker will figure out when they are being controlled. That's when they turn the tables and start manipulating others with bigger behavior and controlling tactics of their own.

Speech and language development should feel EASY and FUN.

No fighting or tears are necessary for kids to learn to talk. It takes a while for them to develop FUNctional speech though, so we have included activities, strategies, and guidance to help you plan EVERY day for Natural Language Facilitation through all the stages from inconsistent sounds and words to social, conversational, FUNctional speech.

With this guide, now YOU have the opportunity to plan and execute FUNctional speech and language learning EVERY day.

You will learn how to HELP the late talker in your life to EVOLVE from limited behaviors, sounds, and scripts as they start using REAL language to share their big ideas and feelings.

This guide will supercharge your everyday housekeeping, cooking, yardwork, and parenting activities (and more) into natural language facilitation opportunities with strategies that make life EASIER.

With progress so fast, the strategies in this guide will become your NEW toolbox.

With so many opportunities to connect and teach, you will quickly become CONFIDENT in your language models as you see which words and phrases your child naturally needs.

You will see that when you model the RIGHT language, the late talker will pick it up and start using your words in their own way. With the RIGHT language models, late talkers will start TRYING more speech, and SAYING more FUNctional phrases and words, as they practicing their new language with everyone.