Speech Therapy

Abhiraam

Start asking these questions :

• What did you eat for breakfast?
• Where did you eat breakfast?
• Who did you eat breakfast with?
• When did you eat breakfast?
• How did you eat breakfast?
• Why did you eat breakfast?

Modelling Yes / NO Questions 

Start with something more interesting (Bubbles).  When your child is consistently answering yes, try offering something that you know she would answer “no” to.  For example, if you’re playing with bubbles and your child is consistently answering “yes”, now switch it up and offer something uninteresting, like a small scrap of paper: “Do you want paper?”  Model “no” just like as described above with yes.  Say “No, no paper” and switch back to the one you know she likes: “Do you want bubbles?”

The next step: Once you’ve practiced helping her say “no”, try to get her to answer without your help.  If she still says “yes”, say “yes, yes paper” and hand her the uninteresting object.  She will probably be confused because that wasn’t really what she wanted.  When she discards it or hands it back to you, say “oh!  No, no paper” and switch back to offering the preferred object.