HOW CAN YOU HELP A CHILD HAVE CONVERSATIONS?
1. Talk about anything your child is doing or is interested in, no matter how insignificant it seems to you. Any kind of conversations are important at first. It is less important what you talk about than the fact that you both are talking back and forth for increasingly more and longer times. In daily life, we often have conversations mainly for the social connection with someone and not primarily for information or accomplishing a task. We need to allow casual conversation time for our children especially since the major task is to make them want to return for more conversations. 2. Allow actions to be part of the conversations. Conversations do not have to be continuous talking. Let actions do the talking at times. When you are playing with your child, join into the things he is doing and make words a part of the play. Occasionally, play and interact in the activity back and forth without talking. For many children, conversations are best learned as a way to supplement or help