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Prioritizing the Vocabulary at Home
When working with your child on increasing your child’s ability to functionally communicate at home, it is important to focus on words that are going to be most effective across a variety of environments and activities. While nouns (e.g., cookie, star) and politeness terms (e.g., please, thank you) are important, the most effective and research-based words to focus on for early talkers are pronouns, verbs, and prepositions, otherwise known as “core vocabulary.” Studies have shown that these words make up 89% of a typically developing preschoolers vocabulary. Let’s think about why these words are so effective. Imagine you are playing cars with your child and your child says “car.” You are likely to interpret that to mean that your child