How to Teach a Toddler to Talk
Advanced Online Course
Worried about your child?
Although your child is talking, you may have noticed that they are not talking as much as other children their age and aren’t combining words to create meaningful phrases. You may find yourself worrying that your child is stuck or has hit a plateau.
Did you know? Most toddlers start using two and three words phrases between 21 and 24 months of age? If your child is not meeting these average numbers and not creating phrases yet – don’t waste time!
How many words should your child use?

- 12 Months = 2-6 words
(other than “mama” and “dada”) - 15 Months =10 words
- 18 months =50 words
- 24 Months =200-300 words
- 30 Months=450 words
- 36 Months =1,000 words
How many words should your child use?
Although your child is talking, you may have noticed that they are not talking as much as other children their age and aren’t combining words to create meaningful phrases.
12 Months = 2-6 words
(other than “mama” and “dada”)
15 Months =10 words
18 months =50 words
24 Months =200-300 words
30 Months=450 words
36 Months =1,000 words

How many words should your child use?
Although your child is talking, you may have noticed that they are not talking as much as other children their age and aren’t combining words to create meaningful phrases.
- 12 Months = 2-6 words
(other than “mama” and “dada”) - 15 Months =10 words
- 18 months =50 words
- 24 Months =200-300 words
- 30 Months=450 words
- 36 Months =1,000 words

Get your child preschool ready with my advanced course.
I’m Kayla Chalko, a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist with a master’s degree from San Diego State University and a specialty in working with children with Autism. You may know me as the Speech Therapist from Youtube, where I post tips and tricks for parents of children with speech and language delays.
As a Speech Therapist, I’ve helped hundreds of worried families learn how to help their child communicate, and I want to help you too!
After countless requests, I’ve created these courses for you that includes the education, activities, and handouts you need to start working with your child towards successful communication.

I’m Kayla Chalko, a licensed Speech-Language Pathologist with a master’s degree from San Diego State University and a specialty in working with children with Autism. You may know me as the Speech Therapist from Youtube, where I post tips and tricks for parents of children with speech and language delays.
As a Speech Therapist, I’ve helped hundreds of worried families learn how to help their child communicate, and I want to help you too!
This course is for children who ...
- Are between 21 months and 5 years old
- Use at least 75 words independently and regularly. (Words they’ve said only once or in imitation don’t count.)
- Aren’t imitating phrases
- Aren’t independently combining words

This course is for children who ...
Are between 21 months and 5 years old
Use at least 75 words independently and regularly.
Aren’t imitating phrases
Aren’t independently combining words

This course is for children who ...
- Are between 21 months and 5 years old
- Use at least 75 words independently and regularly.
- Aren’t imitating phrases
- Aren’t independently combining words

Don't wait — start making progress now!
Choosing to “wait and see” if your child catches up on their own or waiting until a spot opens up on the long clinic waitlist means precious time wasted. Don’t let your child needlessly continue in frustration and anxiety without a way to communicate more fully with you when you could start my advanced video course now.
You can immediately start implementing impactful strategies that can help alleviate stress and frustration for you and your child while opening up the pathway for communication and connection.
All of this for the one-time price of $99! This 8 lesson course is cheaper than one in-person private speech therapy session (which can cost up to $300 an hour)! To give you the very best value possible, I’ve included SIX MONTHS worth of education and activities organized into about 1.5 hours of video education.


Frequently Asked Questions
The full course is available NOW! It is a self-paced online course - you decide when you start and when you finish.
After enrolling, you have one year of access to this course.
For best results, use this course in addition to working in-person with a qualified Speech-Language Pathologist. This course is not to replace in-person speech therapy but provide education.
This course is about 1.5 hours of video education broken up into small, achievable chunks.
Yes. This course covers some of the same essential techniques for children at-risk or diagnosed with Autism.
This course is appropriate for most children between the ages of 21 months and five years of age.
This course is excellent for children who have a below-average vocabulary size. That means they are not using the number of words that most kids their age are using. For a word to count as a vocabulary word, it should be used independently (not just repeated after an adult) and regularly (words used in the past or only once or twice do not count). I typically don't count ABC or numbers as words because they are not used to get wants and needs met.
Course Curriculum
10 Essential Things to Know
How to Boost Vocabulary
Learn over 10 Vocabulary Boosting Activities. Use the printable documents to help guide you.
Now that you have helped your child boost their vocabulary using what you learned in the first two lessons, now you are ready to take them to the next level, which is learning phrases! This lesson is all about the first strategy in teaching phrases.
This lesson is all about the second phrase strategy.
Here we move on to the third strategy in teaching phrases to young children.
This fourth strategy may sound difficult but I'll show you how to easily integrate this into your day.
This is the fifth and final strategy for teaching a toddler to use phrases. You should be seeing excellent progress from your child at this point!
Now we are ready to start challenging your little one to use more advanced phrases. I'll show you specifically how you can help them progress from using simple phrases to then combining words into small sentences.
Here I will answer some of the most common questions parents have at this stage. You'll know exactly what to look for next in your child's developmental process.
Make your time more effective!
My techniques won’t take much time to learn or much extra time to use as most of the techniques will naturally fit into your daily routines, but by tweaking what you are already doing you can make your time more effective for language learning than ever before.
Additionally, by implementing even just 15 minutes per day using my suggested activities you will be connecting with your child on a deeper level and can see amazing social and language results in a short matter of time.
YOU can help your child communicate! Why wait? Start helping your child move from words to phrases today.