If you have a question about how any of the suggestions should be carried out, ask a speech-language pathologist to interpret or explain them to you. It is far better not to have tried them at all than to have tried them incorrectly and failed. Hopefully, they have been explained clearly enough not to need additional clarification. Spend more time with the child who is not talking or who is talking very little. Merely increasing the amount of time spent with the child may encourage talking, but remember to increase the quality of the relationship, that is, the meaningfulness of the play activity, the degree of pleasure provided by the activity, the appropriateness of the words spoken, and the kind of praise and reinforcement used when the child says or attempts to say a word.
Supportive persons can restructure situations to provide more time for the taciturn child.
Be a good model. Unfortunately, many adults are guilty of being poor communicative models. They may talk too fast, too slow, too soft, or too loud. They may talk with poor eye contact or while facing the opposite direction of the listener. A good model is are that communication is learned primarily through the sense of hearing and listening and that a child speaks what has been heard whether it be god or bad communication.