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Jeaneen Tang — Play Dumb & Sabotage: Tiny Habits that Unlock Speech
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In this conversation, Michelle sits down with Los Angeles speech-language pathologist and author Jeaneen Tang to unpack why some kids stay stuck at “grunts and grabs”—and the everyday tweaks that turn requests into real words. Jeaneen shares how to build language without fancy tools: honor a child’s “no,” engineer practice into snacks and play, and borrow the brain’s love of music to make phrases stick.
Jeaneen shares:
A mom’s day that changed everything. When Jeaneen’s son Che suffered a traumatic brain injury and stroke at 13 months, doctors said he might never walk or talk…
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