06/02/2026
You’re doing more than you know.
The repetition, the modeling, the getting down on the floor when you’re exhausted. None of it feels like it’s working until one day it does. And it will.
Speech and language development doesn’t happen in big dramatic moments. It happens in the quiet, ordinary ones. The book you read for the hundredth time. The word you said slowly so they could watch your mouth. The pause you gave them even when you weren’t sure they’d fill it.