- Target one vocabulary word at a time and present it in multiple different ways
- Have parents and teachers also target the same word
- Play games that requires the child to say and listen to the word
- Target words that are meaningful in the child’s environment
- Use other forms of media to talk about the word
- Read books that will allow you to say the word over and over again
- Watch videos from youtube that include the target word
- Encourage families to use a program like Gemiini.org to provide extended modeling beyond what you can do in therapy (www.speechandlanguagekids.com/overview-of-the-gemiini-program-for-nonverbal-children)
- Provide multiple photographs of the same vocab word
- Use google image search to see multiple examples
- Show images on an iPad (again, can use google image search if you peruse first)
- Line up 3 photos of the same thing (different photos) and then provide the child with a 4th
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