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    The document provides tips for communicating effectively with children, including showing interest through silence, observation, and understanding their perspective. It recommends using non-verbal cues like facial expressions and gestures to engage with children. Parents should describe their own actions through self-talk and comment on what the child is doing with parallel talk to support language development. Repeating back what a child says acknowledges them and encourages further discussion, while open-ended questions promote description. Encouragement also helps children communicate their ideas and problem-solving abilities.

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    The document provides tips for communicating effectively with children, including showing interest through silence, observation, and understanding their perspective. It recommends using non-verbal cues like facial expressions and gestures to engage with children. Parents should describe their own actions through self-talk and comment on what the child is doing with parallel talk to support language development. Repeating back what a child says acknowledges them and encourages further discussion, while open-ended questions promote description. Encouragement also helps children communicate their ideas and problem-solving abilities.

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    The document provides tips for communicating effectively with children, including showing interest through silence, observation, and understanding their perspective. It recommends using non-verbal cues like facial expressions and gestures to engage with children. Parents should describe their own actions through self-talk and comment on what the child is doing with parallel talk to support language development. Repeating back what a child says acknowledges them and encourages further discussion, while open-ended questions promote description. Encouragement also helps children communicate their ideas and problem-solving abilities.

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    C. A. CHILDRESS, Psy.D.

    LICENSED CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST, PSY 18857


    219 N. INDIAN HILL BLVD.., STE. 201 CLAREMONT, CA 91711 (909) 821-5398

    Communicating With Children


    SOUL
    S Silence; allow unpressured time of simply showing interest in your child
    O Observation; watch with curiosity and interest what your child is doing
    U Understanding; understand your childs world from your childs perspective
    L Listening; reflecting back what your child just said shows that youre listening
    Non-Verbal Support
    Show your child that you are interested in what theyre doing with your facial expressions,
    your gestures, and your warm tone of voice. Physically get down at your childs level, and
    show interest and excitement in your childs activity and ideas. Smile. Imitating your childs
    activity is a good way to show approval and develop bonding in the play.
    Self-Talk
    As you play with your child, you can describe your activities out loud. For example, if your
    child is pretending to prepare a meal, you can describe setting the table, Im putting the red
    plate and folk over here, and a blue plate and spoon next to them. This is called self-talk,
    labeling and describing what youre doing. This is a good technique to help children with
    language development and is a good way to join a child in play.
    Parallel Talk
    In parallel talk, you describe what your child is doing. As you interact with your child, you
    comment on what your child is playing with and what your child is doing. By simply
    describing what your child is doing, parallel talk blends language with your childs activity
    (Youre patting the playdough flat like a pancake, arent you.). This is a wonderful way to
    both bond with your child and to support their development of language.
    Repeating
    After listening to your child, repeat back what your child just said. Repeating back what your
    child just said is called reflective listening and it is an effective way of acknowledging and
    clarifying what the child said. Reflective listening also encourages the child to continue
    talking.
    Open-Ended Questions
    Questions that have more than one answer or that call for description are called open-ended
    questions (what and how questions). Examples of open-ended questions include:
    What do you think would happen if
    How did you think of that?
    What can you tell me about?
    Encouraging
    You can encourage children to talk about their ideas and find solutions to problems by
    asking them how they solved something, what they plan to do, or what they did; or by asking
    them to help you. Showing curiosity in what your child is doing encourages your child.

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