The Hanen Centre | Speech and Language Development for Children

Talking to Young Children with ASD Matters, New Study Shows

According to a new study, very young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder who hear more words and have more back-and-forth conversations with their parents tend to have better language skills at age two. In this article, we share how you can encourage conversations.

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COVID-19: How Educators Can Build Interactions While Balancing Precautions

Here at The Hanen Centre, we have spent a couple of decades building programs and creating books to help educators create the best possible interactions that build language, communication and literacy for all children in their classroom. With the novel coronavirus outbreak forcing society to adapt in unprecedented ways, we've been discussing how those same strategies can be adapted in the time of social distancing.

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Making Predictions with a Boomer’s Big Day

Reading comprehension is about more than understanding the information conveyed in the pictures and text of a book. To really understand a story, children must also fill in what the writer is “saying” but hasn’t specifically stated. In other words, children need to read between the lines to grasp the overall message of a story.

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