Nixon's Engine Words

Nixon's Engine Words provides functional first words and language enhancing strategies to implement in your home right away. Mika Storey, pediatric speech-language pathologist and author of Nixon's Engine Words prioritizes educating parents on the importance of functional first words. She calls these first words Engine Words. Engine Words are powerful, single words that fuel your child's communication skills. They are single words like "want" and "help" that can stand alone to communicate your child's wants and needs and be generated into longer utterances as your child grows.

Join Nixon and his mother as they enjoy an ordinary but language-rich day together. Each page features an Engine Word and an accompanying caregiver language tip.