tools and resources to get your toddler talking
Get Expert Guidance for Late Talkers
Worried your toddler isn’t talking yet? Easy Talking Toddler is an online self-study course for parents with late-talking children between the ages of 12 months and 4 years.
Language Milestones by Age
We’ll guide you step-by-step to help your child thrive. Hear your toddler’s first words sooner with a proven, at home method
But how do you know when your child needs help? According the American Speech Language Hearing Association, the following are some language and communication milestones you should be looking for by age:
Child Communication Quiz
Hundreds of trusted reviews from people like you
KRISTEN TURNER
Our child has been working with Guy since the winter of 2019. Guy is awesome at redirecting a child when needed. His speech assignments for the home are in game format and we love them. Our child doesn’t even realize she is working! He is very gracious in explaining everything he is doing and seeing.
Stephanie Mendez
This place has been wonderful. I have definitely seen an improvement in my child’s speech. Mr. Guy is very friendly and flexible. He assigns work specific to the needs of my child. He gives helpful tips on how to improve my approach as a parent. . He is very knowledgeable and understanding.
SARAH GILYARD
Guy was extremely knowledgeable, patient, and was able to put us at ease with clear explanations, guidance and progress with our toddler.
Andre N. YELP
Guy Garcia has been quite magical for our 6 year old son who has Autism with Apraxia! He is nonverbal, but Guy has been working with our son for a couple of months and has got him to say more words. My son can now greet me when I come home from work and say Hi Papa, which before he could never do!
Janice
So grateful to have found 1to1 Kid Talk speech therapy for our 4yo autistic son. Since he started at-home speech therapy with Guy, we have seen so much improvement. We have learned tips and techniques that have greatly improved our family’s ability to communicate. From the first session we saw how even small changes in the way we interact with our son had a positive effect on his engagement level with us. Guy also keeps the sessions fun, so when our son sees him his face lights up.
Rima T. YELP
Mr. Guy worked with my child on his stuttering. We had six weeks of therapy and have seen tremendous progress. Mr. Guy’s approach was efficient, and my child responded beautifully to his techniques and strategies.
P Martinez
I met my son’s speech Teacher Guy Garcia when my son started elementary he was his first speech teacher back in 2008/2009. My son is considered a severe stutterer and Guy always encouraged him and helped him in anyway that he could. Stuttering as most people know is a speech impediment that not all speech teachers know how to address. We had lost touch with Guy for a while and just this year my son who is now 18 started falling in a downward spiral of not being able to control his stuttering and it was making him depressed. By a miracle Guy happened to call at exactly the right time. He advised me to have my son watch the movie “When I Stutter”. It helped him tremendously and Guy said he would see him and help him master the techniques shown in the movie. He has made my son do a 180 and just feel more in control of his speech. His patience and sincere caring about his progress is priceless.
Practice 40 Milestones!
Get answers to your parenting worry. This course will give you easy techniques targeting over 40 communication milestones so you can start to help your toddler learn new words EVERY DAY, starting now!
Lessons include:
- Let’s Tackle Speech Delay
- First Words
- When to Worry
- A Toddler’s Attention: How to Get it
- The Best Way to Teach New Words
- The Easy Technique for the Busy Parent
- The Focus Word Method
- The Best Method You Haven’t Thought of
- The 3 Mistakes Most Parents Make
- Easy Input Tricks that Take Less Than 3 Minutes
- The Simple Hack to Help Them Remember Words
- How Autism Affects Speech Delay
Why Trust Us?
Guy is a state and nationally licensed speech-language pathologist. He has been awarded the ACE Certificate from the American Speech-Language Pathology Association multiple times, served on an advisory board for the Arizona Department of Education and acquired multiple advanced training certifications for pediatric speech therapy. He has both an undergraduate degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder, and master’s degree in Communication Disorders from New Mexico State University.
Why Does Easy Talking Toddler Work?
18-24 months
- Know and use at 50 -100 common words
- Combine two or more words to form simple phrases (e.g., “more apple”)
- Verbally ask for help
- Able to follow two-step directions (e.g., Get your shoes and bring them to me)
- Use possessives like “mine” and “Mommy’s”
- Use personal pronouns, such as “me” and “you”
It’s important to remember that not all words and speech will be clearly understandable at this stage.
2 to 3 years
- Combine words more often into 2 and 3-word sentences
- Verbally ask for your attention (i.e., “Watch me, Mommy!”)
- Respond with their first name, if asked
- Pluralize some words
- Ask simple questions like “Why?” and “Where’s Daddy?”
- Answer simple questions like “Do you want the apple or the banana?”
- Correctly make most vowel sounds as well as pronounce b, d, h, m, n, p, and w in words
At this age, speech should be clearer but may still be difficult to understand for someone who does not know your child.
3 to 4 years
- Compare objects with simple adjectives like “smaller” or “longer”
- Tell stories
- Use location words correctly (e.g., outside, under, etc.)
- Pretend to read, write, and spell
- Pronounce all of the syllables as well as the beginning, middle, and end sounds of words
- Use pronouns like “a” and “the” when referring to objects (e.g., the ball)
- Correctly pronounce the consonants f, g, k, t, and y in words
Most people should now be able to understand your child most of the time. Your child should be speaking more smoothly and not repeating sounds or words the majority of the time. Some sounds do take longer to develop (e.g., j, l, r, s, v, z, ch, th, and sh) in many cases, and you do not need to worry if your child still makes mistakes in pronunciation.
Our course encourages easy and efficient learning because it has:
Fun and Engaging Activities
Teach your child words all day!
Make Learning Easy
Evidence-based
Filled with Additional Materials
Ensuring success
Interested in more resources?
1 to 1 Kid Talk Online Speech Therapy Services
Access state and nationally licensed speech therapists who work one-on-one or in small groups with your child. Engaging, interactive games keep your child in practice with speech therapy to enhance their progress.
Speech Therapy Online Course
Begin your child’s journey to improved speech with the Past Tense Verb video series. Research shows that children with language delay may need over 1000 exposures to learn a new verb form. There is a better way! This course uses engaging videos with live child models, short stories, and sentence repetition to provide the intensity kids need while maintaining fun and efficiency.