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Use questions to encourage your child to think
Asking questions is a good way to keep communication going. Questions
also encourage your child to think.
• Give your child tasks that ask her to think in new ways. Then
encourage her to communicate about what she is doing.
Please take out the stones and
throw them away. How can you
tell which are stones and which
are beans?
Beans are bigger.
please
take out
• When your child
has a problem, ask
her to tell you how
to solve it.
The wagon
is too heavy
to pull. What
should we do?
stones
what
we
do?
Helping Children Who Are Deaf (2004)