One of the most important skills I focus on first well, 2! The first one is Joint Attention. Does your child have the ability to shift their gaze back and forth from their activity to your face back to the activity? When playing and you make an exaggerated sound, do they look to you to see what you might be thinking or saying? Joint attention is the single most important skill to teach in my mind, bc it draws your childs face to your face. When they are looking toward you, they can learn from you! The 2nd most important skill is Imitation. There are all sorts of Imitation. Imitation with Actions-When you clap, do they clap, you ask for a hi 5 they give a high 5, you sing and do actions to wheels on the bus they do it to. Object imitation, you stack a block they stack a block, you shake a maraca they shake, you roll a car to them, they roll it and last Vocal Imitation. You do a sound effect they do a sound effect, you say a sound they say a sound, you say a word they say a word. Those 2, skills are incredible pivotal skills. Tell me, does your child have those 2 skills, Joint Attention and Imitation