Once students have mastered comment-comment, then we typically implement a Comment Question program. That is, we teach students to ask questions after we’ve said a vague comment.

Example:

Therapist: “I went shopping last night”

Student: “Where did you go?” “What did you buy?” “Who did you go with?” etc.

Sometimes, students will make comments instead of asking questions (Because they have previously learned this skill in the comment-comment program). That is okay! It’s conversation, it can be flexible and it’s great if you are seeing generative language starting to emerge. That is, generalized language – for free – without even teaching it!!

If students make a comment when it’s more appropriate to ask a question, you can say, “Sure, what else can you say?” or “Try asking a question” in order to prompt.

After Comment-Question is mastered at 80-100% accuracy, we typically teach it to fluency.