Steps to Building Verbal Imitation on DVD
My popular course Steps to Building Verbal Imitation in Toddlers is now available on DVD!
In this 6 hour course on DVD, you’ll learn the hierarchy for teaching a late-talking toddler how to imitate.
Many times imitation is the core skill most late talkers haven’t yet mastered. In this fast-paced course, you’ll learn how to teach toddlers with developmental delays to talk using science-backed strategies that emphasize imitation as the KEY component. This method delivers a practical framework for knowing where to begin work with a late-talking child, provides ideas for what to try when a young child’s progress stalls, and can serve as your new approach when your standard methods don’t seem to be adequate for a particular child’s issues.
You’ll learn a step by step process for moving children forward with expressive language. More importantly, you’ll understand what prerequisite skills a child should have mastered before moving on to the next level. This will prevent a child from going weeks or months without seeing any measurable progress in expressive language. Because troubleshooting is a major part of any treatment plan, you’ll also receive suggestions for what to try when a child seems to be ‘stuck’ at any particular point in therapy.
This course is essential information for all early intervention professionals who work in programs that emphasize family training. Laura’s simple, straight-forward approach is easy for therapists to teach parents to use during familiar play-based activities and daily routines at home. Often SLPs and other therapists aren’t sure how to explain what we do so that parents understand and are able to carry over successes. Laura’s practical style will fill in that gap so you’ll know what to say when you’re working with parents.
LINK TO PURCHASE COURSE ON DVD
Steps to Building Verbal Imitation Skills in Toddlers
Price $99 for DVDs, course manual, and required CE paperwork for ONE participant.
**Additional participants may be added for $50. Please select ADD CE PARTICIPANT during checkout and enter the additional participants’ names as instructed.**
ASHA CEUs and Other CE Credit
A course manual will be provided with the purchase of the course.
Course Description
In this course, participants learned to teach toddlers with developmental delays to talk using science-backed strategies that emphasize imitation as the key component while moving through a hierarchy of complexity from nonverbal actions to phrases. This method delivers a framework for knowing where to begin work with a late-talking toddler and provides ideas for what to try when a child’s progress stalls.
Objectives
1. Differentiate late talkers vs. toddlers with more global developmental delays.
2. Summarize the prerequisite skills a young child MUST exhibit before signing or talking are realistic goals.
3. Tell a parent why imitation is a core skill in speech-language development.
4. Show a child’s parents simple actions to perform during play to facilitate early imitation skills.
5. Determine when an oral motor approach is indicated for late talkers and when it’s not.
6. State the kinds of other early speech targets before ‘real words’ may be an appropriate goal.
7. Formulate and plan appropriate activities and materials for treatment sessions with your youngest clients who are functioning developmentally in the birth to three range.
Outline – 6 Hours, 9 minutes Run Time On DVD
DVD 1 (0 – 2 hours, 29 minutes total run time)
Introduction (0 – 49:15)
- Profiles of Late Talking Toddlers
- Imitation Matters!
Steps to Building Imitation Skills in Toddlers
Building Imitation during Play (49:15 – 1 hour, 14 minutes)
Building Imitation with Gestures (2 hours, 14 minutes – 2 hours, 29 minutes)
DVD 2 – 0 – 2 hours, 12 minutes total run time
Building Imitation with Mouth Movements (0 – 30:51)
Building Imitation with Early Vocalizations (30:51 – 48:29)
Building Imitation with Verbal Routines (1 hour, 31 minutes – 2 hours, 12 minutes)
DVD 3 – 0 – 1 hour, 32 minutes total run time
Building Imitation with Single Words (0 – 45:36)
Building Imitation with Phrases (45:36 – 1 hour, 12 minutes)
Conclusion (1 hour, 12 minutes – 1 hour, 32 minutes)
Course Director
Laura Mize, M. S., CCC-SLP, is a pediatric speech-language pathologist specializing in young children ages birth to four with communication delays and disorders. She earned a B.S. from Mississippi University for Women and an M.S. in Speech-Language Pathology from The University of Southern Mississippi. Laura holds her Certificate of Clinical Competence from ASHA. She authors the website teachmetotalk.com, hosts her popular YouTube channel, and publishes a weekly audio and video podcast Teach Me To Talk: The Podcast. Laura produced a series of training DVDs for parents and professionals who work with children with developmental speech-language delays and disorders. Her best-selling DVDs and therapy manuals are used by pediatric therapists and speech-language pathologists in private practice, early intervention programs, grad schools, preschool programs, and continuing education conferences throughout the USA, Canada, South Africa, The Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore, Israel, Australia, India, Zambia, Greece, and the UK.
SPEAKER DISCLOSURE
Financial – Laura Mize owns teachmetotalk.com and The Laura Mize Group and therefore receives a salary, compensation for speaking, and royalties from teachmetotalk.com product sales and also receives revenue from the YouTube Partners Program.
Nonfinancial – Laura Mize has no other financial or nonfinancial relationships with any author, publisher, or SLP whose work she recommends in this course.
This course is offered for .6 ASHA CEUs (Introductory level, Professional area).
ASHA credit available after 7/25/21.
Purchase COURSE
Price $99 for DVDs, course manual, and required CE paperwork for ONE participant.
**Additional participants may be added for $50. Please select ADD CE PARTICIPANT during checkout and enter the additional participants’ names as instructed.**
Satisfactory Course Completion Requirements
Participants must have purchased and watched the DVD. You must complete the forms in the packet required to award a Certificate of Completion which includes completion of the Self Assessment of Learning Outcomes, a Program Evaluation, a Request for Certificate, and information required for filing ASHA CEUs for SLPs (if applicable). Once all required sections are completed and submitted, you can mail those using the envelope provided or submit via email to forms@teachmetotalk.com. Your certificate which will be emailed to you upon final review of your submission. No credit will be awarded without completion of this entire process. ASHA CEU information is submitted monthly and will appear on your ASHA CEU Registry shortly thereafter. Partial credit is not available. For Other Professionals: Upon completion and return of the forms, a Certificate of Completion will be provided so that you may file for continuing education with your own organization or licensing agency. For Non-Professionals and Parents: All course content is offered at an Introductory, Professional Level and may not be suitable for all parents or non-professionals. If you’d like a Certificate of Completion, you may also register for credit. Participants who are dissatisfied should notify us by email at customerservice@teachmetotalk.com so that your issue can be resolved. We want you to be 100% satisfied with your purchase. Questions? Email me! Laura@teachmetotalk.com.
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Thank you so much for all your hard work and publishing books! Our 17-month-old toddler suddenly exploded into speaking and imitating everybody's gestures and sounds, just a week or two after we 'completed' all activities that are listed under 11 pre-linguistic skills! Your method really works!"
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I love your work! I am a professor of early childhood special education and a speech language pathologist! I have worked to help children learn to communicate and I know how valuable the information you share is for both early interventionists and pediatric speech language pathologists!
Thank you for systematically organizing and explaining essential steps for young children to learn and develop. You are having a great impact on our profession, the ECE profession and families!"
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If this is Laura herself reading this email let me take this opportunity to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all that you have put forth for us professionals. I own every manual (except the autism manual) and have watched every course on DVD. I have listened to countless podcasts. All of what I’ve come to be as an Early Intervention speech therapist was absolutely to your credit. With your resources at my side I have never needed to scramble for answers and strategies and above all the clear language I use when communicating with parents. My fun, animated affect and key phrases I use have been learned through watching your example. So….thank you! May you be blessed."
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"I just wanted to thank you so much for your incredible help! You are so kind and lovely and every time I implement something you've taught in your manuals or videos it is always a success, I cannot thank you enough. I really appreciate how specific you are in giving us examples of wording to use and how to use a toy in therapy with your videos, it is exactly what I need to properly help my little students. I also really appreciate your list of books of list of toys. I have seen my little students make significant progress thanks to you. I'm looking forward to watching more of your videos, taking more of your CEU's, and reading more of your materials. From the bottom of my heart: thank you so much again!!"
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Laura thank you so much. Btw, you have transformed my therapy- I have become such a competent and strong therapist after watching probably like 350 of your videos and podcasts over the past few years. And I am a seasoned therapist with almost 25 years experience. (Yes prob 350 episodes ha!) But there was still a lot I learned from you. I have such a thorough understanding of birth to 3 development and how to properly incorporate appropriate therapeutic goals, techniques and strategies now, thanks to you. Kelly
