I recommend Agents of Speech to parents who want to learn how to help a child communicate at home. It is the parent-led course resource I used alongside GAPS with two of my children. The free courses give you somewhere practical to begin, from the foundations of learning together to first words, sentences and conversation.
The value is in learning what to do during an interaction: how to notice what interests your child, make your language easier to follow and build on a response. Those are useful skills to bring into the time you already spend together. Below, I explain what the courses offer, what the teaching involves and why this resource belongs in my family’s story.
Why I Used Agents of Speech
We noticed speech delays in our third and fourth children at about eighteen to nineteen months. They were barely communicating at the level we expected. Our third child also went from being very happy to being unhappy and screaming much of the time. There was a lot more going on in our day than a short list of missing words.
We worked on gut health through GAPS and followed Agents of Speech courses at home through its Skool community. Our third child’s speech had mostly caught up by age five. Our fourth child has made a great deal of progress and can speak in full sentences. Both GAPS and the parent-led speech work belong in that account.
My advice is to get help with communication while you work on gut health. Agents of Speech is one of the resources I recommend. Our children spend so much of their time at home with us, and learning how to support them during that time matters. I share more of our experience in my GAPS guide for late talkers and Our GAPS Journey.
What Agents of Speech Offers
Agents of Speech, also called AOS, provides online education and coaching for parents of children with speech and language delays. Its free course library is hosted in a private Skool community. Paid coaching is offered separately. The central idea is to teach the parent practical ways to help the child learn at home.[1][3]
Founder Ming Fung’s professional biography lists a psychology degree from the University of Hong Kong and a Master of Speech Therapy from Hong Kong Polytechnic University. It describes his work in clinics and schools before developing online parent coaching. That background helps explain the focus: the adult learns how to teach, then carries the work into everyday interactions.[2]
You can see the current free course library before joining. Some introductory lessons include a video, an audio attachment and PDF slides. The slides make the main teaching points easy to revisit; the lesson videos provide the accompanying instruction. The natural-language module, for example, develops one idea across several lessons instead of leaving a parent with a single tip to interpret alone.[3][4][5][6][7]
How the Teaching Works
One useful distinction in the Introduction course is between structured teaching and natural language practice. AOS includes work on imitation, prompts and communication opportunities, but it also teaches parents how to join a child’s play without asking for a performance at every turn. Those approaches serve different purposes.[3][5]
Make Room for Language
The lesson on teaching without questions addresses a familiar difficulty: an adult keeps asking questions while the child does not answer, or repeats the question instead. The course then introduces a different kind of exchange, using short descriptions connected to what the child is doing.[4][5]
The practical distinction is helpful. A parent can provide words without making each sentence another task for the child to complete. In this particular modeling activity, AOS does not require the child to look at the adult or immediately copy the words. The parent supplies language at a level the child can follow.[5]
Join the Child’s Play
The companion lesson begins with observing, waiting and listening. Parents are asked to notice how the child plays, which actions or sounds hold their interest and whether they invite someone else into the activity. Joining begins with following that play and copying it, rather than immediately changing it.[6]
That makes the advice more concrete than simply saying to play together. The parent has something specific to watch for before adding words. If a child enjoys moving a toy car back and forth, for example, the starting point can be that movement and the sounds already happening.
Build on the Child’s Words
The later lesson connects short, accurate descriptions with language expansion. When a child uses a word, the parent can acknowledge it and add a little more language. It also emphasizes repetition and explains that the child’s ability to copy spoken language matters.[7]
An example would be a child saying “ball” and an adult responding with “big ball” while they are looking at it together. The added word has an immediate meaning. That is a small exchange, but it gives a parent a clearer job than trying to produce a long conversation before the child is ready for one.
These lessons are a good example of the resource’s usefulness: they explain the adult’s part in the interaction. Reading a milestone list tells you what a skill looks like. Learning how to observe, model and respond gives you something practical to work on.
Choosing a Free Course
The library covers different communication skills. These descriptions can help you find a relevant starting point; the course introductions explain how to use the lessons.[3]
| Course | What It Helps You Work On |
|---|---|
| Micro Course | Get an orientation through common parent questions about teaching a child with speech delays. |
| AOS Introduction Course | Learn the parent’s role and the foundations of practical teaching at home. |
| Zero to Words | Work on verbal imitation and early communication before combining words into sentences. |
| Word Combiners | Help a child who already uses and imitates single words begin combining them. |
| Speech Disorders Crash Course | Focus on speech clarity, a different question from how many words a child uses. |
| Verbal Reasoning Workshop | Work on reasoning and explanations with a child who is using sentences. |
The classroom also lists social skills, sentence building, behavior and toilet-training workshops. You do not have to turn the whole library into one enormous assignment. Choose a course for the skill you are trying to understand, and use its sequence. The recommendation here comes from the parent courses we used. Paid coaching is a separate choice.[3][8]
What the Parent Has to Do
The free format makes getting started accessible, but parent-led work still asks something of you. You need time to learn the approach and opportunities to practice it with your child. Watching a lesson and recognizing the idea is one part. Becoming comfortable using it in an ordinary interaction takes practice.
The natural-language handouts are straightforward about repetition and patience. They ask parents to keep language connected to the child’s activity, allow time for participation and resist taking over the play. Those details matter when you are deciding whether this kind of resource fits you.[5][6][7]
For a working, homeschooling mother of six, the reason to value parent education is easy to understand: you can bring the learning into family life. That does not require inventing a different activity for every conversation. The useful work may be learning to respond more clearly during something the child already enjoys.
Free Courses and Paid Coaching
The free library is a substantial place to start learning. AOS also offers paid coaching programs, including options aimed at different communication levels. Check the current courses and coaching page for what is available and how applications work.[1][3]
The important difference is the kind of help you want. A recorded course lets you study a teaching approach and revisit it. If your main question is how the approach applies to your own child, look carefully at the current coaching description and the feedback it includes before choosing a program. A course title alone does not explain that service.
I recommend beginning with the free parent education. It lets you understand AOS’s approach and see what learning at home involves before deciding whether you want additional coaching. You can make that first step without committing to a coaching package.
How It Fits With Our GAPS Work
In our house, GAPS and parent-led speech support were part of the same period of helping our children. The food work mattered to us, and so did learning how to help them communicate. The AOS courses gave us a resource for that second part.
If you are also managing GAPS meals, my late-talkers guide brings the family account and the GAPS discussion together. It covers the food-and-gut-health side as well as our communication work.
My GAPS for Late Talkers: A Family Plan Alongside Speech Therapy course and Speech & Milestone Tracker are listed in the WFLI Shop. Those resources are intended to help with organizing the family side of the work; Agents of Speech is where I point parents for the speech-teaching courses described here.
My Recommendation
Agents of Speech earns my recommendation because it gives parents practical teaching to use during the many hours a child spends at home. The free starting route, progression through communication skills and attention to the parent’s responses make it a useful resource to explore.
Start with the Agents of Speech community and free courses. Read the orientation, choose the course that addresses your child’s current communication skills and give yourself time to learn it. You can work on one useful interaction at a time.
References
- Agents of Speech. About Agents of Speech. Provider’s purpose and free education/paid coaching model. Checked October 21, 2026.
- Agents of Speech. Ming Fung. Professional biography. Checked October 21, 2026.
- Agents of Speech. Free Courses. Current library and course descriptions. Checked October 21, 2026.
- Agents of Speech, AOS Introduction Course. How to Teach Without Asking Questions. Accompanying PDF, pages 1–4. Free community account required.
- Agents of Speech, AOS Introduction Course. The Way Therapists Teach Language Naturally. Accompanying PDF, pages 1–6. Free community account required.
- Agents of Speech, AOS Introduction Course. Get Your Child to Care What You’re Doing. Accompanying PDF, pages 1–11. Free community account required.
- Agents of Speech, AOS Introduction Course. Advanced Language Learning by Accurate Talking. Accompanying PDF, pages 1–7. Free community account required.
- Agents of Speech. Skool Community. Free-course access and classroom descriptions. Checked October 21, 2026.
Leave a comment