BYCCT – Speech Therapy Totos

Worried Your Toddler Isn’t Talking? Stop Guessing and Start Connecting.

Does this sound familiar?

You love your child more than anything, but the silence is starting to feel heavy. You find yourself constantly wondering:

Is my child just a “late bloomer,” or is this something more?
Why don’t they listen or follow simple instructions?
How can I handle the frustration and tantrums when they can’t tell me what they want?
Am I doing enough to help them?

You’ve tried everything you can think of, but you’re navigating in the dark, feeling anxious and unsure of the next step.

The Answer Isn’t Just Teaching Words. It’s Building Communication from the Ground Up.

Before Your Child Can Talk is a comprehensive, play-based program designed by experts to give you the confidence and tools to transform your home into a communication-rich environment.

We don’t focus on flashcards or drills. Instead, we show you how to use your everyday routines, toys, and interactions to build the essential pre-verbal skills your child must have before they can talk.

Over 5 weeks, you will learn a proven system to:

Improve Listening & Following Directions: Turn “they never listen” into “they know what to do” by building compliance and understanding.
Encourage Your Child to Communicate: Learn simple “environment tweaks” and communication temptations that motivate your child to make requests and interact with you.
Master the Foundational Skills: Systematically build eye contact, turn-taking, and copying skills—the true building blocks of speech.
Teach a Powerful First Vocabulary: Focus on functional “core words” like ‘more’, ‘help’, and ‘stop’ that reduce frustration and empower your child.

What you will learn from this video series:

5 Weekly Modules: A clear, easy-to-follow plan that eliminates overwhelm. Each week has specific goals so you always know exactly what to focus on.
🎬 Video Demonstrations: Watch real-life examples of the techniques and activities, so you can see exactly how to implement them with your child.
📚 Printable Handouts & Activity Guides: From vocabulary lists to play ideas, get everything you need right at your fingertips. No need to invent your own activities.
💡 Simple, Actionable Recommendations: Practical, powerful strategies you can start using immediately during playtime, mealtime, and bath time.

So, what can be done to ‘manage’ a child’s stutter?

Priming your child to communicate effectively is a cultivating a skill that will benefit them throughout their life.

Weeks 1-4

Create a communication-friendly home, improve listening skills, and encourage your child’s first attempts to communicate.

Weeks 5-8

Building Blocks Master essential pre-verbal skills like copying sounds and gestures, eye contact, and turn-taking. Introduce powerful first words.

Weeks 9-12

Putting It Together Teach your child to understand categories, follow more complex instructions, and use their new skills in flexible, creative play.

Research has found that the sooner therapy is sought after the onset of the stutter, the higher the likelihood that your child would be able to ‘manage’ their stutter

Whilst stuttering has ‘no cure’, early intervention is the key to ensuring that stuttering does not spiral out of control or becomes exacerbated.

Early intervention is the earliest possible ‘intervention’ or ‘therapy’ aimed at addressing your child’s communication issue.

NOW, LET ME INTRODUCE YOU TO WHAT CAN BE YOUR VERY OWN MANUAL FOR QUICKLY AND EFFORTLESSLY RESTORING YOUR CHILD’S CONFIDENCE

5 LESSONS

of me ‘teaching’ the important bits about how to help your child grow in speech.

SUPPLEMENTARY VIDEOS

to give your child even more practice to help them become a stellar communicator.

PRICE

KSh. 37,000

Testimonials

I am a developmental pediatrician practicing at Gertrude’s children’s hospital. In this capacity I have worked with Lorna and find her to be very professional and passionate about her work.
She is very thorough when evaluating children and is comfortable interacting with other professionals in a multidisciplinary team. She has been a pleasure to work with.

Dr. Alliya Mohamed, MD FAAP.

We first met Lorna when she was referred to us as a speech therapist for our son. After we saw how quickly our son’s speech improved (and how Lorna integrated academic concepts into the therapy), we realized Lorna has a gift for working with children.
Lorna is someone you follow. Lorna…has our highest possible recommendation.

Mama & Baba Gabriel, and Samuel

Our very first meeting with Lorna gave me a great deal of confidence that i was finally at the right place. By the end of that first meeting i got to know for the first time the specific challenge areas that we needed to concentrate on so as to help my daughter along with her speech and i was also equipped with practical skills to further aid her progress. Six months down the line, my daughter can express herself much more clearly and this has given her confidence to make friends at school!

Njambi

I know Lorna since that time for my son and do not hesitate to discuss with her any issue pertaining to her field. She gives all her time to listen and advices appropriately.
I feel proud to recommend her to any of my colleague, friend or my patients, as I have experienced her services myself. Speech therapy services are quite few in the country and not really affordable for some. Lorna is working hard to provide an affordable, uninterrupted service that the country is really in need of. We really need to support her in this great initiative.

Dr Rohini Patil MBBS, MD (Paed)

Stuttering will likely get worse over time

For most children who stutter, if the stutter is not addressed effectively, the stutter could end up getting progressively worse

Which means, if the stutter started out as mild or infrequent, with time, the stutter can end up being moderate or severe

Why is that?

Well, stuttering happens to have associated factors as well as environmental factors that could make stuttering worsen with time

What are these associated factors?

The Real Cost of a Communication Gap

A child’s struggle to talk isn’t just about learning words. It’s an emotional barrier that grows every day. When toddlers can’t express their needs, they get frustrated. That frustration can turn into anxiety. It makes them less likely to raise their hand, join a game, or make a new friend. This program breaks that cycle. We give you the tools to build a foundation of confident communication, turning frustration into connection.

At home, they are less likely to join in a discussion or an argument

How could these factors contribute to the worsening of the stutter?

Imagine if you had any negative feelings associated with presenting in front of many people (or your boss), how do you think your presentations would go during these situations?

Over time, anxiety can make a child who stutters avoid speaking situations.

Anxiety can also make a child who stutters fearful (or anxious) about speaking situations, which in turn can negatively impact on their speaking fluency.

Environmental Factors

Similarly, there are environmental situations that can also contribute to the worsening of a stutter

It is unfortunate that people (including children) who stutter hardly every receive positive feedback (or praise) associated with how they speak

In fact, children who stutter might not even receive many other positive feedback about anything related to speaking

No one ever tells them they are speaking well

Or that they have great ideas

Or that their story was wonderful

INSTEAD, they are more likely to hear remarks such as,

“Why do you talk like that?”

“Why does your brother/sister speak like that?”

“Stop saying x x x”

All these reactions to how a child (or person) stutters can affect how they view themselves or their speaking abilities, which in turn, can make the stutter worsen over time

Imagine only hearing negative feedback about how you did a particular thing, how confident would you feel about attempting that thing…not so confident, right?

Our 3 year old daughter was struggling with stammering when we decided to seek help from a speech therapist, Lorna Muthamia- Ochido who came highly recommended by friends as well as my daughter’s school. She did a very thorough initial assessment which revealed that our daughter indeed stammered and also had a lisp, something that we were completely unaware of. Lorna was very friendly and skillful that our daughter barely noticed that she was being assessed.

Lorna exceeded our expectations…
– Our daughter was stutter free within a period of one year, with two therapy sessions per week.
– She was lisp free within three months with 1 session therapy per week.
– …She fully equipped us with strategies to use daily at home.

Norah

And… Who am I to be teaching this course?

Hi, I’m your teacher Lorna Muthamia-Ochido. I run a family-centred speech-language therapy clinic, the largest in East and Central Africa. My clinic has helped more than 40,000 children optimise their communication outcomes (in other words, I make children smarter ). My most important job however has been to empower parents and equip them with the necessary skills to mitigate their children’s speech/ language difficulties and set them on a trajectory of lifelong success.

Because I work in an underserved country, I have not always been able to make my services accessible to all who need it, which compelled me to find a way to get this much needed training out to parents so that they too can be empowered to make the difference in their child’s life. I am a mama of 3 (Mor- 11; Marwa- 9 and Mara- 5), so all these techniques have also been tried and tested with not just my clients, but my own children. I am also a proud homeschooler- I am passionate about enriching children’s learning journeys and bringing down barriers that prevent them from succeeding.

Does this describe your situation?

Your child used to talk fluently, but appears to have developed a dysfluency in their speech
Your child is aged below 4 years, or if older than 4 (but below 6 years), only recently developed the stammer
Your child is beginning to show frustration at his/her change of fluency
You would like to find out if this is indeed a stammer/stutter or just a ‘passing cloud’ that you needn’t worry about
You would like to learn some tips on how to support your child through this ‘phase’

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I access the video series?

After you purchase the video series, you’ll get an email from us with instructions for logging into your course.

Do these videos replace face-to-face speech therapy?

Great question! No general course could ever replace an individualised speech therapy program. That said, these videos are meant to give you immediately implementable tips should they realise or suspect that your child has developed a stutter. I have found that parents who suspect their child may have a stutter, can in the time between the onset and seeking evaluation, inadvertently contribute to a worsening of the stutter.

These series can help you support your child’s speech, by acting as a stop-gap measure until you are in a position to seek evaluation from a speech therapist. In best case scenarios, these series can help get your child to become stutter-free. The tips I share here can also be used in conjunction with your child’s speech therapy plan.