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    This document provides guidance for parents on encouraging prelinguistic communication in children. It defines prelinguistic communication as how children communicate before using words through gestures, vocalizations, facial expressions and eye contact. The document recommends five main strategies: 1) follow the child's lead in activities, 2) encourage social routines and games, 3) arrange the environment to prompt communication, 4) model words, and 5) prompt and ask questions. It also describes prelinguistic milieu teaching which focuses on helping children make requests and comments through gestures and sounds while engaging their interest.

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    This document provides guidance for parents on encouraging prelinguistic communication in children. It defines prelinguistic communication as how children communicate before using words through gestures, vocalizations, facial expressions and eye contact. The document recommends five main strategies: 1) follow the child's lead in activities, 2) encourage social routines and games, 3) arrange the environment to prompt communication, 4) model words, and 5) prompt and ask questions. It also describes prelinguistic milieu teaching which focuses on helping children make requests and comments through gestures and sounds while engaging their interest.

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    This document provides guidance for parents on encouraging prelinguistic communication in children. It defines prelinguistic communication as how children communicate before using words through gestures, vocalizations, facial expressions and eye contact. The document recommends five main strategies: 1) follow the child's lead in activities, 2) encourage social routines and games, 3) arrange the environment to prompt communication, 4) model words, and 5) prompt and ask questions. It also describes prelinguistic milieu teaching which focuses on helping children make requests and comments through gestures and sounds while engaging their interest.

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    Five Main

    A PARENT’S GUIDE TO
    Resources Takeaways
    PRELINGUISTIC Social Communication Benchmarks
    1. Follow your child’s
    COMMUNICATION Website: https://www.asha.org/practice-
    portal/clinical-topics/social-communication-
    lead.
    STRATEGIES disorder/social-communication-benchmarks/
    2. Encourage social
    Talking Readiness (Pre-Language Skills)
    By: Emma Catanzarite
    Website: routines/games.
    https://childdevelopment.com.au/areas-of-
    concern/using-speech/talking-readiness-pre- 3. Arrange the
    language-skills/
    environment to
    What is Prelinguistic Milieu Teaching (PMT)? encourage
    Website and video:
    https://getgoally.com/blog/neurodiversopedia/wh communication.
    at-is-prelinguistic-milieu-teaching-pmt/
    4. Model words.
    Building Blocks of Childhood: Prelinguistic
    Milieu Teaching - A Boost for Children Age 2
    5. Prompt and ask
    Website: https://merrill.ku.edu/building-blocks- questions.
    language-early-childhood-part-4
    How can you encourage
    communication? HOW TO
    Prelinguistic Prelinguistic Milieu IMPLEMENT DAILY
    Communication Teaching (PMT)
    What is it? The purpose of this teaching method is
    to help a child build their first
    This is how your child
    communication stage by making
    communicates before they start requests and comments with gestures
    using words. This could look like: and/or sounds, and to look at the person
    they are communicating with. This Show your child options of different
    Gestures strategy follows three basic principles: toys to play with or activities to do,
    and let them choose/request.
    Vocalizations
    Facial expressions 1. Follow their lead: Children learn
    best when doing things that
    Eye contact
    interest them, so focus on what
    Imitations
    they want to play with.
    2. Arrange the environment for
    Why is it important? communication: For example, put
    Research shows that language their favorite toy out of reach to
    Play games like Pat-a-Cake, Peek-a-
    learning is particularly important encourage them to ask for it. Or, Boo, or pushing a ball back and forth
    to help teach social routines.
    early in a child’s life. Learning rearrange things in the room to
    elicit a comment
    during this stage will help your
    3. Use social games: Games like
    child build foundational skills to
    Pat-a-Cake and Peek-a-Boo
    start learning words and sentences.
    encourage social routines like
    Using fun and engaging activities turn-taking.
    will help to encourage
    communication. Modeling words, prompting, and
    Continuously comment, model words,
    asking questions are also great prompt, and ask questions, and imitate
    strategies to encourage communication. their vocalizations related to their
    activity of interest. The more words
    they hear from you, the better!

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