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Posted by Kristina710 on March 17, 2009, 9:03 am, in reply to "EI client with no motivation"
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I would back off from trying to get him to imitate sounds or words at this point. Focus on imitation of fine and gross motor movements. You touch you toes, jump, stick out your tongue, etc., telling him to do the same, and act really happy and excited. Clap and cheer when he does what you do. When he is consisently imitating actions, I would bring back imitating sounds, but only as a fun activity, just like the movements. Start with easy vowels, such as /a/ and /i/. He doesn't have to do it to get something, imitating is the only goal.
Have play breaks between the times when you are expecting him to imitate, which can be used to address receptive language.
I'm not surprised about the phrases he produces. I have little ones who will say "what's that", "stop it" or "here you go" clearly who generally have highly unintelligible speech. I find the hardest part about that is explaining to the parent that their child is not speaking in 2 - 3 word phrases, but rather only knows the utterane as a single unit, no different than when they say "puppy" or "cup".
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