Preservice Education: Perspectives about Integrating Caregivers

Table 2

Strategies clinicians promoted with caregivers.

Strategy	How to implement strategy	Examples
Caregiver responsiveness	Follow the child’s lead, take turns during play, and reinforce communication attempts by the child	Praised caregiver when she followed Sam to kitchen and began to take turns talking on the phone
Modeling	Demonstrate words, phrases, and signs and expand on child’s productions	Demonstrated to caregiver how to model the sign and word for “more” to make requests for toys
Environmental manipulation	Identify highly motivating toys or objects, manipulate toys to promote communication, and integrate language into daily routines	Praised caregiver for providing access to preferred items (i.e., bubbles) after the child said “more bubbles”