Natural Language Acquisition: Stage 3

Your child has gone through NLA stage 1 (echolalia) and been using NLA stage 2 (mitigation) steadily and now is ready to be supported in NLA stage 3 (referential). You may be hearing single word labels now that aren't single word gestalts. I like to model around whatever the child is playing with or interested in. If playing with cars I'll model things like: car, red car, blue car, truck, car down, race track, car track, track, one car,, car dirty, car wash, gas, tire, truck car. It is not time to model verbs at this stage. It takes some practice getting used to not modeling gestalts!

But you can do it! Just practice!:)