09/03/2026
Did you know most parents use a powerful language-teaching tool hundreds of times a week — without ever being taught it?
It's called a recast. Your child says "I scared," you respond "You were scared!" You're not correcting them — you're reflecting their meaning back in a fuller, more grammatical form, right in the flow of conversation.
SLPs have recommended recasting to families for decades, backed by research showing it helps children acquire grammar. But there's always been a paradox in that advice. A landmark 2001 study by Proctor-Williams, Fey, and Loeb dug into exactly that tension — and what they found has real implications for how we coach parents in language intervention today.
We broke it down on our blog 👇
https://cslot.com/news/blog/
Whether you're a parent wondering how to support language at home, or a fellow clinician thinking about caregiver coaching strategies, this one's worth a read.
Since 1980, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, and behavior therapists from the Center for Speech, Language, Occupational Therapy, and Applied Behavior Analysis (CSLOT) have been serving the communication, movement, and behavior needs of children and adults in the San Francisco B...
