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Mommy Speech Therapy

I wanted to share with you a comment I received earlier this week on this site from a mom who bought Teach Me To Talk - The DVD for her son, and then I want to share what seems to be the common denominator in the dozens of e-mails I’ve received like this in the two short months since the [...]

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Help! My Child Won’t Imitate Words …. Begin with Imitating Movements & Sounds in Play

Learning to imitate sounds and words is a critical skill in a child’s quest to become verbal.  Many children who are apraxic, or who exhibit motor planning problems, have great difficulty learning to repeat words.   Teaching a child to imitate words often begins with teaching him HOW to imitate.  Sometimes it’s easier to start with movements of your body rather than with [...]

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Questions about Late Talking

A reader named Andrea posted this series of questions on Friday.  Her questions are so similar to those most parents ask that I thought I should respond for everyone to read. 
“My 18mo son is not talking as well as my 4yo daughter did at this same age. She was a babblemouth and he doesn’t seem to want to talk at all. I have expressed [...]