Welcome to Lesson Two in the Language Strategies for Parents course.

In Before Words Lesson One, you watched a video featuring Emily Rubin, MS, CCC-SLP, Director of the Educational Outreach Program at the Marcus Autism Center, discuss how to help your child learn social skills before language.

Click on this 20 minute video to learn from Emily Rubin Click on this 20 minute video to learn from Emily Rubin about tools parents can use to help their child’s social skills develop through at the emerging language stage.  If you have already watched the Before Words video, please skip to the timecode of 11:58 to start at this new section and watch 10 minutes devoted to this stage of language acquisition.

In this lesson you will:

Learn ways to foster engagement to help your child develop language as a tool for social connections.

Learn how to use language and other tools to provide information to your child in multiple ways.

Learn how to help your child express themselves in different ways so that they can practice and develop relationships with their teachers and peers.

Need a refresher?  Scroll down to the link to the previous video, Before Words

Following this video, proceed to the quiz.

Once you complete the quiz for Emerging Language Lesson Two, continue to Conversation Language Lesson Three. Once you complete that one,  you will have earned your Language Strategies for Parents course certificate!