Top important 20 words for my 3 years old to learn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are paying for weekly private speech therapy, and she asks me top 20 words that we want her especially to work on as one of the goal.

We want some important and most used/functionality words, any suggestions?

We are out of wits, and our 3 year old can speak below words as far as I can recall. She still talks one word 95%.

water, hungry, snack, key, shopping, playground, mommy, daddy, dog, cat, why, what happen, car, fly, airplane, swing, slide, chair, eat, drink, food, ice cream, candy, cracker, cookie, lollipop, chocolate, dirty, book, pee,, poo, diaper, pant,, rainbow,, clean, wash, sleepy. Blankie, backpack, book, play, monkey, some body parts, number 1-5, pink, red, cup, me, mine, fork, spoon, juice, apple, orange, yogurt, gummy, bear, yummy, yucky, napkin, boogie, pretty, no, yes, hi, bye, hot, cold, hurt, bandage, doctor, help, horse, iPad, power, yeah, jacket.

More critically. Kiddo need to put two words together for a request like a PP mentioned. So "want drink", "more juice", "yucky diaper". Etc.

[Anonymous]

Lots of misinformation on this site which is to be expected. Do your kiddo a favor and find someone trained specifically in verbal behavior as soon as possible. Best wishes to you and your precious little one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most of those words are nouns. I'd focus on relational words/adverbs and the like: go, outside, up, down, there. These should help her start to form two word sentences.

+1

And this was the advice of our speech therapist.

My kid learned “cup” and “down” the same week. Down was SO much more useful because it’s useful in a ton of contexts.

I’d add:

help
Please
More
Again
Stop

Thank you, and this is an interesting observation that most words I list are nouns. I think they are mostly nouns due to I often use those baby picture books to teach her words.

Check out Wimmelbooks. They are just interesting pictures with a lot going on (no words). They're great for describing scenes if you want another way to introduce words.