How to Assist Your Child With a Limited Vocabulary
If the child has a limited vocabulary and speaks in short sentences, the language should be slightly more complex, with no more than two words added. If a child speaks in two or three word sentences, the adult's sentence should be four or five words long. Always narrating their actions, emphasizing names, object designations, and actions of objects and activities involving the child.
If the child speaks in phrases and simple sentences, the language should be slightly more complex, but no more than one word should be added. If a child speaks in four or five word sentences, the adult's sentence should be six or seven words long. Always narrating their actions, emphasizing names, object designations, and actions of objects and activities involving the child.
If the child is already speaking in full sentences, the language should be slightly more complex, with no more than one word added.
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