Follow Lead/Stages of Communication
Get involved in what your child is doing
Follow their lead
OWL, Copy and Comment
What is how to help your child learn to Imitate
Repeat, Offer Opportunity, Cue, Keep it Going
What is ROCK
Responding to familiar routines, taking cues from the environment or responding to intonation in your voice
What your child might be responding during daily routines
Child does a simple action to make a toy do something interesting
What is Cause and Effect toy
Observe, Wait and Listen
What is OWLing
Paying attention, leading, taking turns and shifting focus
What your child learns when they Imitate
Give a hint, add a point or gesture look at your child or the object
What is CUE in ROCK
Brush teeth, wash hands, get dressed
What is daily routines
Toys that you build things
What are Construction toys
Messages are not yet intentional
What is Own Agenda Stage
What is add something new
Stop and wait, know when, how long and how many times you will wait
What is the "O" in ROCK - Offer Opportunities
Simplify the way you say when your your child do not understand
What is Say less
What is Functional Play
Share interests, responds to questions
What is Early Communicator
Include, Interpret, Imitate and Intrude
What are the 4Is of Interaction
Do what your child is doing, intrude playfully, include interest, interpret
How to include the 4I's
Pause between words and phrases
What is Go Slow
Sensory, buttons, flaps, moving parts, homemade
What are Hands on Books
Combine all the reasons to have short conversations
What is Partner Stage
Get in the way, hide and search, keeper of the pieces add something new, same toy different way
What is how to Intrude
Say less, stress, go slow, show
Four S's
Exaggerate important words say it louder
What is Stress
Favorite Topics, favorite characters
What is Special Interest Books