On home videos for language development and literacy.

When A- went through his anti-Pictello phase, we started making "home videos" (is that still a term? Videos on our phone...). And putting them on his tablet under the iPhone Photos app. These were just short videos we'd take of our lives - like a long blue bus turning while we're playing in a playground, dad pushing A- on the swing, I made one whole video about how I broke my foot and had to see a doctor, etc. We'd caption the videos using an app called Veed.

A- watched them as much as he'd watch Pictellos - and now he watches Pictellos and those videos. And honestly, I think those language samples have been more impactful for him than our spoken-real-time language samples. Not that it's a competition... but I think the videos have been pretty critical for him!

I gave this (perhaps completely incorrect!) suggestion to an SLP - if it's hard to engage with activities with a kid during speech therapy, maybe just do whatever fun thing he likes, videotape it, say the phrases you want to model, caption it, and let the kiddo watch those videos whenever he wants between sessions!