Having pestered you all successfully to help me strategise in helping DS2 understand sequences, I'm now after something - perhaps just a simple list - that would help me and DH make more judicious choices about what kind of language/vocabulary/concepts to focus on with DS2 in terms of his receptive speech.
You know the problem - you say to your SALT "I tried to explain X to him and he doesn't understand". And the therapist says "Well X is quite complicated, why don't you start with W instead?". Which would be great if I got to see the speech therapist more often. But as it is I can waste time with things that are "X" ie above his head for too long before accepting he's not ready for them and retreating back to whatever is "W" at that moment. I'm stuck at the moment trying to think how to teach "brother". Just telling him that DS1 is his brother clearly did not sink in. I've taken photos of kids we know together. But then I tried to explain that "Eleanor lives with Edward" and "to live" just seemed too complicated a verb for him (sigh).
I have figured out that simple nouns and action verbs are where to start but we're running out of these! We can give choices, express preferences, "invoke" past experiences without grammar, talk about what we are going to do next, and answer a very few basic questions ("what are you eating/wearing/what can you see?"). But the concepts are really coming very slowly and I'd like to have a resource that showed me how to figure out what might be "in the zone" for him.
The David Crystal book "Listen to your Child" was great for learning about typical expressive speech development but didn't cover receptive language acquisition.
Maybe even a student SALT's textbook or something like that? It could be either about delayed children or just something about typically developing children and what they understand first, then next, then later, etc, etc.
Any ideas appreciated.