Tips for later talker

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My 2.5 year old toddler is behind with his speech. I have been trying to help him for the past month from things ive been learning on youtube and online. I am currently waiting for speech therapy but as I have just been referred it will take a long time. Does anyone have any tips they felt helped their late talkers talk sooner ?
Would love to implement these tips / strategies at home.

Commentate on their play, indeed, on anything they are doing, or that you are doing, or that you see when you are out and about.
Actual speaking develops after understanding, so he needs to hear lots of language first. Label things just as you go about your day
So, when shopping... "Right, what's on my list? Bread. We need bread. (gets bread). Shall we get some cake? Do you want the jam tarts or the chocolate rolls?" (showing, and getting him to choose) etc. etc.

Use lots of visual cues.

Associate 'objects' with regular routine instructions (show him his coat, or shoes when you are going outside a towel when it is bath time, a plate when it is time to eat, etc.) to reinforce the language.
Although you should commentate a lot on what is going on, keep the language simple ...... "Coat on" is easier to process than "Come over here as you need to put your coat on now as it is cold outside".

Sing lots of songs and Nursery rhymes - particularly any with actions.

Most importantly, get his hearing checked

I would recommend having a look at the speech delay app Pippin. It has a speech course which teaches you on a week by week basis different speech therapy strategies and games. I'm on week 7 of the course with my son and have already seen such a big improvement in his speech!

pippinspeech.com/

@UsingChangeofName Thank you . I will be implementing these. I have a hearing appointment for next month booked. With the nursery rhymes we sing alot of them already and hes very good at doing the actions. For example if we sing if your happy and you know it he will clap his hands when i say clap and he will say clap too but if i told him in a normal conversation to clap his hands he wont do it even though i believe he understands what i am saying. I am assuming at some point after constant repetition we can move on from doing the actions within songs to doing them in a normal conversation

@LucyBrown88 Thanks I will download it