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Increasing Motivation to Communicate

Learn effective techniques from Tracy Vail, MS, CCC/SLP to boost communication motivation in children. Discover reasons behind communication and factors that influence motivation. Gain insights into pairing items with reinforcement, understanding social communication factors, and building pre-verbal skills to improve interactions.

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Increasing Motivation to Communicate

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  1. Increasing Motivation to Communicate Presented by Tracy Vail,MS,CCC/SLP Let’s Talk Speech and Language Services, Inc

  2. Reasons Why People Communicate • To gain access to desired items or activities • To escape situations that are undesirable or uncomfortable. • To share experiences with other people • To accomplish joint tasks • To gain information from other people

  3. Factors Relating to Motivation to gain access to desired items and activities • Degree of deprivation/satiation • History of reinforcement with the object/activity

  4. Increasing the number of objects or activities the child will request • Pair new items with reinforcement • Place little to no demands when interacting with new items. • Watch carefully to see what part or the object or activity the child enjoys • Be sure to have yourself be part of the reinforcement of the toy.

  5. Pairing with Reinforcement

  6. What part does the child enjoy?

  7. Use Materials/Objects the child finds interesting

  8. Factors Affecting Motivation for Social Communication • Learning history with the individual and with people in general • Degree of interest in objects vs. people

  9. Learn How the Specific Child experiences the world and provide input the child finds reinforcing • How does the child like to be touched? • What types of sounds does the child enjoy? • What types of movement does the child enjoy? • What does the child like to look at? • What does the child like to smell?

  10. BE the REINFORCER

  11. Make sure you’re part of the play

  12. Get on the child’s level

  13. Build Pre-Verbal Social-Communicative Skills • Eye gaze/facial gaze • Shared affect • Joint attention to objects/activities • Give/handing an object to you • Pointing to/looking to objects and back to you (joint reference/shared reference)

  14. Create Situations Where Information is Needed

  15. Use Favorite Stories to Increase Req uests

  16. Using Language to Escape or Negotiate

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