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Strategies and Suggestions for Parents:
- Read, read, read with your child
- Model good speech
- Avoid "baby talk"
- Ask questions during and after reading a story with your child
- Have your child retell events of a story
- Discuss steps to complete a task
- Constantly talk with your child about what you are doing and seeing or what they are doing and seeing
- Expand your child's utterances
- Play listening games such as Simon Says, Green Light or ISpy
- Play games with basic concepts such as Hide and Seek. Explain where an object is hidden using words like over, under, out, in, off, on, exc.
- Rhyme with your child-read and learn nursery rhymes and sing songs