The Hanen Centre | Speech and Language Development for Children

Tap into Your Child’s Natural Way of Learning Language

Mother playing with child

By age six, the average child understands about 10,000 words! This amazing feat happens by children picking out patterns in the language they hear every day. Children with language delays have more difficulty picking out these patterns in language. In this article, we share some tips on how you can help your child find patterns during your everyday interactions. Continue Reading

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Common Questions about Questions

As a parent, you probably use questions as a way to encourage your child to talk and help him or her have little conversations with you. In this article, you’ll find answers to some questions you might have about how to use questions effectively to build your child’s language and conversation skills.

Book Nook

Explaining Why
Things Happen
with Mmm, Cookies!

Discussing why certain things happen in a book is a great way to encourage your child to think about the story and further his understanding. The better your child understands the stories he hears, the easier it will be for him to read and write stories on his own later. In this Book Nook, we introduce strategies that will help your child understand Mmm Cookies.

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