Overview
This lecture introduces the strategies of expanding and recasting to support children's language development and communication skills.
Expanding Strategies
- Expanding means adding extra information to what your child communicates.
- Expansion can be used with any form of communication, including gestures and words.
- If a child points to a dog, label it by saying "dog."
- If a child says "dog," expand by saying "look at that big dog."
- If a child says "doggie run," expand to "the dog runs fast."
Recasting Strategies
- Recasting involves repeating your child's message in a grammatically correct way.
- Emphasize the corrected information when recasting.
- For "me want cookie," recast as "I want a cookie."
- For "that dog run really fast," recast as "yes, that dog ran really fast."
- For "him kicked the ball," recast as "he kicked the ball far."
Benefits of Expanding and Recasting
- Both strategies help increase vocabulary.
- They support grammatical development in children.
- These strategies improve overall communication skills.
Key Terms & Definitions
- Expanding — Adding more information to a child's message to enrich language input.
- Recasting — Restating a child's sentence correctly to model proper language use.
Action Items / Next Steps
- Identify daily opportunities to practice expansion and recasting with your child.