When one of my twins as in speech, his early "classes" were him and me doing an activity and him copying the sound I was making. We would hold him on my hip (you know, the regular parental hip carry) and I would bounce him and go "ooo, ooo, ooo" as I was bouncing him and then stop and he was expected to copy the "ooo" sound back to me and when he did, I would bounce him again. Then, I would bounce him and say "aw, aw, aw" and so on and so forth. We would work through all the vowel sounds like that.
He also had oral apraxia and some other issues. He couldn't talk because his brain wasn't processing it correctly (central processing disorder).
Also, we did some sign language and, when he got older, the manual alphabet.
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