{"id":670,"date":"2020-03-24T08:33:23","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T12:33:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sokoloski\/?p=670"},"modified":"2020-03-24T08:33:23","modified_gmt":"2020-03-24T12:33:23","slug":"making-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sokoloski\/2020\/03\/24\/making-choices\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Offering your child choices throughout the day is a great way to work on their communication skills.&nbsp; When a child has choices they feel like they have control over a situation and also feel like they are in charge.&nbsp; Start small by offering your child two choices in different ways throughout the day.&nbsp; Some simple ways you can work on this at home include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Offer two snack options<\/li><li>Show your child two different books and have them choose which one they\u2019d like you to read<\/li><li>Show your child two different toys and have them choose which one they\u2019d like to play with<\/li><li>Offer different cups to drink out of<\/li><li>Show them two shirts and let them pick which one to wear<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The video below is created by a pediatric speech-language pathologist and is a great overview of how to offer your child choices.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Can&#039;t Get a Child to Talk? Try Choices!... Therapy Tip of the Week 12.9.2017\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bq0JdK8i5YE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Offering your child choices throughout the day is a great way to work on their communication skills.&nbsp; When a child has choices they feel like they have control over a situation and also feel like they are in charge.&nbsp; Start small by offering your child two choices in different ways throughout the day.&nbsp; Some simple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2454,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sokoloski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sokoloski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sokoloski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sokoloski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sokoloski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sokoloski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sokoloski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sokoloski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/sokoloski\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}