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