For children with more complex communication profiles, supporting multiple ways to communicate is essential for access, participation, and meaningful inclusion in early childhood settings.

Here are simple, evidence-informed strategies parents can use throughout the day to support receptive language development.

Looking for ways to support your child’s communication before they start talking? Learn how pre-verbal skills like gestures, imitation, and vocal play build the foundation for early speech—and how parents can support these skills through play and everyday routines. Part 3 of our pre-verbal development series.

Every child communicates in their own way. Total Communication helps us recognize and support all the ways children connect, through gestures, sounds, signs, pictures, and AAC, giving them the tools to grow, share, and be understood.

Looking for ways to support your child’s communication before they start talking? Part 2 of this series looks at early, pre-verbal skills and simple ways parents can support them through play and everyday routines.

Looking for ways to support your child’s communication before they start talking? This first of a three-part blog series explores the early skills children develop before words, and simple, everyday ways parents can support them.