How did you get your little ones to talk?

My son is 2 and a half, but he's only able to say a few words.. he's currently in speech therapy.. I'm trying not to worry, but it's hard 😮‍💨

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He will do it when he is ready just keep doing what the speech therapy has told you to do

We thought my son was going to be running behind in speech but out of nowhere he started saying 2-3 word phrases. Kinda skipped the whole first words thing. I used to sing the alphabet to him while changing him and I would count up to different numbers using the alphabet song as the tune while we were bathing or changing diapers or getting ready for bed. It always caught his attention and he would stop fussing. So it wasn’t a surprise to us when he started counting and doing the alphabet before the other kids but was kinda behind with other basics. We also showed him YouTube videos with the alphabet and colors and things like that so it all came around full circle.

In addition to speech therapy, you could also look into doing early intervention

Just keep repeating the words and sounds he makes my son is 3 and I not talking but is making sounds that sounds like words. His strongest sounds are the abc’s and 1-10

-Talk him through everything you are doing. “ mommy is making lunch” “for lunch you have … … …”
-Repetition and modelling is so important to develop language skills.
-Reading simple short books.
-repeating whatever he says back to him
-teaching sign language and incorporating the words with it
And then lastly just patience… eventually he will talk!

My daughter is in speech Therapy and since she started incorporating sign language for her to communicate, she has started saying more words.

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