Ready, Set, Talk!

Ready, Set, Talk!

Is your toddler not talking yet, using only a few words, or struggling to communicate what they want?

Ready, Set, Talk! is a practical parent guide designed to help families support toddler speech and language development at home through simple, natural interactions.

Instead of turning your home into a therapy room, you'll learn how to create communication opportunities during the things you already do every day-playing, eating, getting dressed, reading books, going outside, and spending time together.

This book is especially helpful for parents of late talkers, toddlers with speech delays, children with limited verbal language, and young children who need extra support developing functional communication.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

• Recognize the ways your child communicates before words
• Find what motivates your child to interact and communicate
• Encourage pointing, gestures, sounds, imitation, and first words
• Use simple language your toddler can understand and imitate
• Teach useful words such as more, help, open, go, and all done
• Turn sounds and word approximations into meaningful communication
• Expand single words into two- and three-word phrases
• Encourage spontaneous language instead of constant repetition
• Understand echolalia, scripting, and repeated language
• Use play and everyday routines to support language development
• Recognize when behavior may be communicating a need
• Gradually reduce prompting so your child becomes a more independent communicator

At the heart of the book is the Ready, Set, Talk Communication Cycle-a practical approach that helps parents know what to do in everyday communication moments: Motivate, Model, Wait, Accept, Respond, and Repeat.

You don't need expensive speech therapy materials, complicated exercises, or hours of structured practice. You need meaningful moments, simple strategies, and a better understanding of how communication grows.

Whether you're looking for speech therapy activities at home, help for a late-talking toddler, early language intervention strategies, or practical ways to encourage your toddler's first words, Ready, Set, Talk! gives you a clear place to begin.

Start where your child is. Build on what they can already do. And turn everyday moments into opportunities to communicate.