Smile Pediatric Therapy and Diagnostics is excited to announce that we are offering the Hanen: It Takes Two to Talk ® parent training course from February 8th – April 18th 2012.
This course is especially designed for parents of children who want to help boost their child’s communication skills. The It Takes Two to Talk ® program provides family-centered, step-by-step strategies to help improve a child’s speech and language development via fun, everyday activities. The program is lead by Hanen® Certified speech-language pathologists and is tailored to match each child’s individual needs with support and ideas from other parents in the program.
The It Takes Two to Talk® program will give you step by step instructions to:
• Understand how your child communicates and what motivates your child to communicate
• How to respond to your child in ways that improve language learning
• How to talk so that your child can learn new concepts, words, and ideas
• How to turn everyday activities into opportunities for your child to learn language
Read what some Smile families had to say about the It Takes Two to Talk® course:
“This class will definitely change the way you interact with your child and it will make them use more words and understand more.”
“My child made tons of progress. The simple strategies make a Huge difference!”
“All parents should take this class. My child went from making only sounds to using words in sentences.”
About the program:
It Takes Two to Talk® is an evidence-based program proven to have positive effects on the communication development of young children. Is was developed by the Hanen® Center in Toronto, Canada and is a world-renowned program that truly makes a difference. For more information on the Hanen® Center click HERE.
For more information about the program offered at Smile, to enroll in the current course, or to see if you qualify for financial assistance please e-mail aniqa@smile-ptd.com or call us at 323.644.9380.