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Most the time when a toddler isn’t talking yet, they’re not yet imitating. A child’s ability to imitate – or repeating what you see someone do or hear someone say – is the best predictor of expressive language skills – and this doesn’t just start with learning to imitate words. Actually, there are 8 different levels of imitating toddlers acquire before that prepare them to talk. In this TTOW video, I’ll give you quick overview of how imitation skills develop so that you can pinpoint exactly where a child is in the process and help him move forward! Join pediatric speech-language pathologist as she shares information on how to help your young child learn to talk. This information is from her CE course Steps to Building Verbal Imitation Skills in Toddlers for therapists and a therapy manual called Building Verbal Imitation Skills in Toddlers – both available at teachmetotalk.com. All 8 levels are summed up in a one page chart that therapists tell me they use all day every day to explain expressive language development to parents. Let’s take a brief look at each of these 8 levels in the video. For more information visit https://teachmetotalk.com/. #speechtherapyfor toddlers #latetalker #expressivelanguagedelay #speechdelay #LauraMize #teachmetotalk #languagedelay #mychildcanttalk #teachachildtotalk #howtodospeechtherapywithtoddlers #toddlercannottalk #teachmychildhowtosaywords #autism #apraxia #CAS #childhoodapraxiaofspeech