Without question, the following line is one of the biggest challenges I hear from parents: “My child isn’t speaking in sentences.” After all, building sentences is central to a child’s communication success. This skill develops as babies listen to adults around them having conversations. Then over time, babies slowly start to emulate adults by first producing single words and eventually short phrases.  As language skills grow, their sentences become more and more sophisticated.

Unfortunately, this process isn’t quite as simple for children. A lot of my clients might be able to repeat words or phrases, but they are mostly using scripts and aren’t formulating their unique thoughts and ideas into sentences.

This is where I find visual supports to be incredibly helpful.