How to increase to 2 sentences..please advise

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Hi

Anyone out there that can remember how they went from speaking in 1 sentences to 2 and few?

My son nearly 5 only speaks in 1 sentence. Can anyone advise how I can build on this?

Thanks so much

I don't remember how I did it...I was using full sentences at 11 months. However, as a teacher, in order to get students to use more than one-word or one sentence answers, we use open-ended questions. That's a question that can't be answered with just "yes" or "no." For example, "Did you have fun in school today?" is a closed question, it only requires "yes" or "no." "What did you do in school today?" is an open-ended question. Try to ask your son questions that require longer answers or explanation, and probe his answers with related, open-ended questions. I can't promise this will work, but hopefully encouraging him to speak more will allow him to feel more comfortable giving longer answers.

Yeah. But keep them simple enough that there's not so much vague--things he can answer pretty easily, without having to sort through ambiguity.

re. "What did you do in school today?"--beware that many kids are exhausted when they get home from school. If he's one of them, give him a little down time before you make him talk about things.

And make talking rewarding. Make sure he knows that this is the way that he gets you to do things, gets you to understand things, and communicates his choices. The more practice he gets, the better he'll get at it; and the more rewarding practice is, the more he'll practice. I'm not talking about artificial rewards, though, like sticker charts or candy or something; don't do that. Just make the point that talking is a useful skill. Cause and effect; things happen when he talks about them.