The Vogl Method’s 10 Rules of Language Development

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  1. Find words worth speaking for to teach your child. Please and thank you,
    don’t get you anything.
  2. Don’t give away anything for free! Snacks and pushes will cost your child an
    attempt at saying the word.
  3. Make it as easy as possible for your child to speak. Approximations should be
    accepted but also look at what would be the easiest sound or word to learn.
  4. Take away PECS and the IPad when teaching speech. Some disagree with this
    one, but they create too much of a dependency and they also slow down the
    amount of times you can ask your child to speak. You want your child to
    make hundreds of attempts in the midst of exciting and motivating play.
  5. Be helpful to your child. Why are you there? This is always a good question to
    keep you focused on the goal. Your child has to see you as an integral part of
    his/her own success or they won’t speak to you.
  6. Be immediate with the payoff when your child speaks. You can’t wait, and
    there should be a lot of energy that your child is exposed to around speaking.
  7. Use a playroom or place where your child can speak to you.
  8. Use movement as the incentive, this will set up the opportunity for more
    examples.
  9. Don’t go in and out of teaching speech, immersion is key.
    10. Make speaking fun! I know the point is often to get stuff, but that stuff should
    be fun anyways! You are not going to bore your child into speaking, trust me.

Print and put on your refrigerator and have fun!

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